Blog by Tag: Computing

This week the Year 2 children have been learning about what bullying is and the feelings associated with bullying for all those involved. The children have been finding out that it can also happen online as well as offline. The children took photos of each other then edited the photos to add a…

In English the Year 2 children have been looking at the features of a formal invitation. Today they used their computing skills to create a template for a formal invitation that they will use in future lessons to write their own formal invitation.

At the first Computing Club of this half term the Key Stage 2 children were coding. They created code to create a dance party. They were led through multiple challenges by coding experts from the dance and music industry. They made characters move, change size and change colour. They also added…

In our Computing session Reception were learning how to name and save their own work using the iPads. They used their finger to choose the colours they wanted to use and then drew a self portrait after looking in the mirror. The children then gave their picture a name and saved it to the Reception…

Year 2 reflected on what they do online and how they treat others online when they are communicating with them. They worked in groups to think of things they could say online that would be respectful to others then they designed a character for a new game of their choice.

Year 5 have been learning all about safer gaming and came up with guidelines on how to stay safe when gaming. They had lots of fabulous advice from not giving out any personal information to strategies for what to do if people are being mean. All the children had so much to contribute to our class…

The theme for internet safety day this year was, ‘All the fun and games’. Year 4 worked in teams to design and make an online game designed for children to teach them about playing games online safely. 
 

As part of Anti-Bullying week year one focused on this year’s theme: ‘One Kind Word’. First we explored how the words we use are really important and once said can’t be taken back.  We worked through the impact of word choices in messages that can be sent online.  We explored the slides in the…

For anti bullying week Reception looked at examples of how to be kind online on Project Evolve. We then created a class poster of how to be kind online and to others. 
 

Year 2 have been learning about how we communicate with people online and offline in their computing lessons. As part of their work on the Anti-Bullying Week theme ‘One Kind Word’ the children discussed how it was important to use the words to be kind to others and make them feel good rather than…

Year 6 have been refining their computing skills to create concept maps linked to Anti-bullying week. They produced these fabulous concept maps with ways to be nice to each other online. Great job! 

Year 4 are using Logo to learn how to use a text based coding language to control an onscreen turtle to create mathematical patterns. Today they have been learning the common instructions using the Logo programming language to create shapes.