The Digital leaders have had a great morning at Rochdale Rugby club to complete Engineering Educates workshop. We looking at what we think a ‘typical’ robot looks like. We then learnt about what engineering is and how they use robots to help complete different jobs. Next their challenge was ‘Motion Read more…
Year 3 have had lots of fun during Computer club. They have: played Minecraft coding Completed coding games on the IPad played snakes and ladders using the beet bots used the micro:bits following on from their DT lessons played games on Purple Mash Well done to the Digital Leaders as Read more…
Year 3 had a great time today exploring the micro:bit hardware and software. They loved creating their own code to make the micro:bit show emojis and other patterns!
This week our computing lesson turned into a physical exercise activity. This half term we’re learning all about concept maps and the importance of recording information. We demonstrated the idea of a physical concept map using string. We then discussed how difficult it was to remember everybody’s ideas and why Read more…
For our Geography topic we have been learning about animals around the world. We picked our favourite animal and have been researching about it. In our Computing lesson we have been learning ‘effective searching’ and have been finding out more information about our favourite animal using the internet. We are Read more…
We have started our new Computer unit on Spreadsheets. We introduced what spreadsheets look like and used for. We then practised basic skills such as adding number and writing our name. After this we completed some calculations and watched how the spreadsheet worked out the answers.
Well done to everyone who entered the poster competition for ‘Safer internet day’. The Digital leaders had a really tough job picking a winner. A huge congratulations to our two winners who each won £10 Amazon vouchers and their posters will be displayed in school:
Reception have been learning about how to keep safe online. Harold showed us a video about how Jessie saw something she didn’t like online. She taught us a song about keeping safe online and told us to always tell an adult if we ever see anything online that has made Read more…
Year 6 looked at how much time we spend online, using mobile devices or other screens. We looked at how this time can be when performing useful tasks, such as researching a topic, rather than extended periods of time looking at content or on social media. We also looked at Read more…
This week was internet safety week. In Year 5 we discussed social media and the positive and negative impacts it can have on us.