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.
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…
Year 1 loved going on the iPads today to play with Numbots. They took it in turns to use the iPad and helped each other out when they got stuck. Well done Oaks!
During our computing lessons, the children have been looking at the effects of too much screen time. All children in Year 6 completed a survey at home to find out how much they actually spent on their screens (TV, phones, iPads, computers etc). The children then completed a poster on Read more…
As part of our Online Safety topic, Year 6 recorded their screen time and activity time across a week. We then looked at creating fields before adding the class data to a database. Finally, we were able to analyse the data by creating a range of graphs and Read more…
Year 5 have been working hard in their computing lessons this half term. We have learnt some new vocabulary and thinking about algorithms, abstraction and decomposition in computer science. The children have used Purple Mash to code a simple traffic light system. We also used a football game and thought Read more…
For Coding week we have been using Purple Mash to create a program using a given design. We planned an algorithm that included collision detection. We used ‘The Princess and the frog’ to create a set of algorithms. We needed to move the princess to the right then when the Read more…
Today we looked at coding and what coding means! We loved trying to make the fish move in the correct direction. Some of us drew the coding blocks, to indicate where the fish would move and what blocks to click.
As part of Coding week, Year 6 looked at creating their own games on Scratch. The children used brief guides and their own coding knowledge to create one of three games: tennis, archery or cycling. They were able to write lines of code using sensing blocks, variables and Read more…
This week during computing, Year 6 have been looking at coding. They have explored, investigated and made different games on scratch. The children worked very hard, thought about the schools secrets of success (don’t give up, concentrate and push yourself) whilst using scratch. Well done.