Today we have been recapping on how to stay safe online. From making sure we have secure passwords to not sharing our personal detail with strangers. Year 3 were able to create a presentation to share with their peers to spread the message of internet safety.
Maple have been working on producing spreadsheets on their laptops this afternoon. We inputted some data and used to 2calulate to produce some line graphs and bar charts. We used the graphs to answer questions about the data.
This week has been Hour of Code, we went on Space Monkey and had to give instructions to the monkey so he could get the banana’s. https://www.codemonkey.com/hour-of-code/space-adventure/
We’ve had a fun first week back playing games and learning about pirates. We had a great time making pirate hats and eyes patches during our pirate party. The children have all settled into Year 2 really well and have behaved exceptionally. Images to follow…
In computing this half-term, Year 5 have been creating their own games. They have analysed other games, designed settings and themes, designed characters, changed animations and sounds that their character makes, written instructions and evaluated their peers’ games to help future designs. We are really impressed with their completed games! Read more…
Today in Computing we have learnt about online safety and what we should and should not share with people through email. We discussed why sharing our personal details with people we don’t know could be dangerous and why we shouldn’t share them with our friends either. Read more…
Today during computing, we discussed the positives and negatives of different ways to send messages (for example: emails, texting, orally). We played Chinese Whispers to demonstrate how it can be difficult to relay a message orally if it goes through lots of people!
Yesterday was Safer internet day, within our online lesson we talked about the dangers of the internet and looked at different scenarios deciding on whether we would check the information we see or trust it. Erica created a brilliant poster, which included some really important rules for us to follow Read more…
This week we had fun on hour of code playing a mine craft game. We had to set algorithms to complete each level: Visit hour of code website for lots more fun game https://code.org/learn
Today Juniper completed their hour of code for hour of code week. The children had to create a Grinch themed game by creating algorithms. There were various levels to pass which included programming a drone to collect presents to take back to Whoville and riding the Sleigh, with various obstacles Read more…