Computing
Year 3 Birch Computing – spreadsheets
We loved computing today. We used spreadsheets to input data and then used this to create a graph. We used our favourite ice cream flavours.
Computing
Year 3 Birch Coding lesson
We really enjoyed coding today. We put in a code to make our characters move and make noises. There were lots of funny noises coming from our classroom this afternoon!
Computing
Coding week
This week in Maple we have been enjoying Coding Week. We designed a football coding game and debugged to fix any errors in the code. Some of us had a go at designing a background in Free Code gibbon on Purple Mash, we learnt how to go in to design Read more
Computing
Online Safety – Digital Footprints
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
Computing
Online safety – digital footprint
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
Computing
Coding week
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.
Computing
Online Safety
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
Computing
Databases
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
Computing
Spreadsheets
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