Internet Safety day

This week is internet safety week. We read a book called ‘ Webster’s friend’ which is about a spider who has made a friend online but the person who he is talking to isn’t who they say they are.  Next week looked at 3 different scenarios where people were not being Read more

Online safety

Today we have been working on improving our understanding of online safety. we started by reading Tek the Morden cave man and then completely activities on purple mash to see what we had learnt.

Computing – Creating Spreadsheets

As part of our Purple Mash unit, we had to create a spreadsheet to record the results and probabilities of rolling dice. We recorded the totals and results, and used these to create graphs.   We were able to use basic formulae to total our results automatically.  

Pocahontas

This week we have been learning about Pocahontas in our computing lesson.  In computing our unit is called ‘Effective searching’ so we have been using the internet to search for facts about Pocahontas. We worked really well together to complete the quiz questions about Pocahontas’ life.

Making Music

A fantastic first day back in Year 2. We began our new topic ‘Making music’ in computing. The children enjoyed experimenting using 2sequence to compose their own music. They then looked at the tune of Twinkle Twinkle and added different instruments alongside the drum beat, to create a new version.

Analysing Fieldwork Data

Year 6 had taken part in a traffic survey on Queen’s Park Road, tallying the amount, colour and types of vehicles travelling to and from Heywood.   To be able to understand the data better, we created a range of graphs to display our results visually, as a Geographer would Read more