As part of our online safety unit, we looked at digital footprints, and how they can affect employability, the impressions we get of people, and future prospects. We assessed candidates based on their experiences and digital footprints across social media. From this, we looked at the information that would possibly Read more…
This half term year 6 are focusing on online safety. In today’s lesson, we looked at ‘our digital footprint’. The childre defined the meaning of a digital footprint and started to understand how and why people use their information. They also looked at appropriate online behaviour and the impact they Read more…
This week is coding week. Coding helps us to understand how programs work and can help us with our problem solving skills. We had 3 problems with our programs which we had to use our skills to help us fix the program.
As part of our Purple Mash unit, we looked at playing and creating a game to help us understand the dangers around using the internet and social media. We used the information we had learnt, to create the game and then tested it out. We also took a quiz to Read more…
Juniper have been creating their own databases this afternoon. We have used our new learning to create records and fields within a database and then use that information to ask the database questions. The children came up with some excellent suggestions for ‘fields’ and were able to explain whether or Read more…
This half term in computing we have been looking at spreadsheets. We setup a shop on a spreadsheet on purple mash. We had to add a food item at the top and add a price next to it. We then used the add button and equals so the spreadsheet could Read more…
Before the half term, we learnt all about Internet safety. We listened to a story read by the Digital Leaders, it taught us to think before we click and if we see anything unsafe or something we are unsure about we need to tell an adult we trust. We created Read more…
This week we have been learning about being safe online. We have discussed when we should use our iPads, mobile phones and computers. Then we discussed what we should do if something happened while we were using it. Jessie and her friends, taught us a song to help us. We Read more…
Year 5 Pine took part in a live lesson for safer internet day. We recapped the rules about keeping safe online. The children discussed how to communicate safely online and we discussed how we would deal with several online dilemmas. The children the invented their own character for the digital Read more…
