This year’s team of Digital Leaders have now been appointed and are already hard at work. Two Digital leaders are continuing in their post from last year, taking on a more senior role and six new children were appointed after a rigorous application procedure. The Digital Leaders are: Ruby (Senior Read more…
Yesterday, Class 4 began their new Computing unit looking at pictograms. We started our lesson by discussing different modes of transport and making a concept map on the whiteboard containing all our ideas. Then we talked about which modes of transport we used to get to school. Nobody came to Read more…
On Thursday, we hosted Digital Leaders from five different schools within the Arch Alliance to celebrate the end of this year’s Digital Leader Programme. Throughout the day, children took part in a Lego Robotics workshop with Junior Stem and used their programming skills to activate their Lego figures. Thank you Read more…
This afternoon we learnt how to make a basic spreadsheet using Purple Mash. We can now copy and paste cells and find the probability of an event happening.
Code Club has been up and running now for two weeks and we are delighted to share with you some of the children’s first games. There task was to create an avoidance game with two characters (a ‘goodie’ and a baddie’). They had to write code so that the ‘goodie’ Read more…
Today we began our new computing topic where we will be evaluating and creating our own games (much to the delight of Class 11). In lesson one we began by exploring existing games designed by children from another school, looking at themes, purpose and what makes a successful game. This Read more…
In English, Class 10 have been reading an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. The story’s twists and turns, character relationships and love triangles can be difficult to get a grip of so Miss Wolf wanted to test our understanding using a Kahoot! quiz. The quiz was Read more…
Today Class 12 had lots of fun in their grammar lesson! We played Kahoot – a quiz game on the iPad. The children really enjoyed this quiz and can’t wait for the next grammar lesson!
On Tuesday this week, we celebrated Safer Internet Day. It is an event that’s celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. This year’s theme was “Create, Connect and Share Respect: A better internet starts with you!” Read more…
The final drafts are typed up ready for publication. Our Year 6 journalists have done a great job! Well done everyone!