This year’s team of Digital Leaders have now been appointed and are already hard at work. Four Digital leaders are continuing in their post from last year, taking on a more senior role and three new children were appointed after a rigorous application procedure. The Digital Leaders are: Tryphon (Senior Read more…
Our Digital Leaders enjoyed attending Bowlee Park this afternoon for their first kids meet of the year. They were introduced to the Rochdale Digital Leader blog, learned about their first challenge and met Digital Leaders from other schools.
Last week, the Digital Leaders travelled to Bowlee Park Primary School to deliver their final presentation about their year. They spoke about the Samsung VR Space experience and subsequent filming, as well as how they carried out their duties and responsibilities this year. I would like to take this opportunity Read more…
On Tuesday, the Digital Leaders joined their counterparts from other schools at Bowlee Park Primary School in Middleton for the first of two KidsMeets and what a fantastic event it was! They got to experience a variety of fun computing activities and entertainment, including: exploring augmented reality with representatives from Read more…
Today we had our first session of Computing Club. Seventeen children attended and, helped by the Digital Leaders, explored a variety of coding apps.
For their Spring 2 challenge, the Digital Leaders were tasked with evaluating apps and helping others to use them. Using the screen recording function on the iPads they created video tutorials for several apps.
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have a workshop delivered on the problems Social Media may cause and how to ensure we are safe and protected. After a very exciting assembly the three performers came in to do some fun activities and actions based on what we had learnt Read more…
For Safer Internet Day, our Digital Leaders ran an Online Safety Poster competition. The children were asked to design a poster highlighting how to stay safe online for a chance to win an X-Box or PS4 voucher (kindly donated by Smyths Toys). There were over 100 entries, each unique and Read more…
Class 6 really enjoyed Safer Internet Day! They already knew lots of information about how to keep safe, and they took lots away from the lesson the Digital Leaders planned. We will make sure to keep discussing this during our computing lessons.
Today we had a visit from 2 of Harwood Park’s digital leaders, Tryphon and Ruby. They discussed with Class 10 the importance of not sharing personal information online and checking age restrictions on websites, video games and apps. Children then made an online safety pledge using their learning from the Read more…