Great finish to the half terms work at Beatrix Potter School Earlsfield. Year 1 finished their e books about how to be a happy playground using Book Creator on the iPads. Some lovely work adding videos and sound to the pictures they have already created. Throughout the project one of the aims was to familiarise … More Google Drive and Book Creator in Year 1
Great intro to HTML in Brandlehow Primary School year 5. Using chrome books on Mozilla thimble. Lovely discussion about the “cloud” what the internet is and the difference between the www and internet. Somebody suggested the hard stuff like computers was the internet and the soft stuff like games was the www. Fantastic!Now to change … More HTML intro year 5 Brandlehow
After a fantastic cpd with Joe Moretti using ar and vr in the classroom I just thought I would share some basic ar using chatterpix ChatterKid in a reception class. The app is so easy to use the children take to it really quickly. We had the reception children finding different shapes around the class and … More Chatter pix
Year One were in introduced to my purple friend Daisy the Dinosaur today. Lots of fun was had by all coding Daisy to move across the screen. Then squeals of delight when the children discovered they could make Daisy grow so large and shrink so small they couldn’t see her any more! The children picked … More Beatrix Potter and Daisy the Dino
The Pi club at Hollydale Primary School is going from strength to strength. The children are all confident setting up the Pis and have started exploring the possibilities offered by the GPIO pins. We started simply using one of the projects in Carrie Anne Philbin’s wonderful book Adventures in Rapsberry Pi. We plugged an LED into the … More Hollydale Primary School Pi club
I wanted to move the year 1 at Beatrix Potter School on from exploring the BeeBots and start recording simple instructions in a psuedo program. They had allready explored the robots last week and this week I demonstrated how to record using simple arrows what the children wanted the Bots to achieve. We talked about … More Year 1 Programming Beebots
What a great e safety day at Broadwater Primary School . Thanks to all the parents who turned up to the parents sessions and provided some stimulating topics of conversation. I hoped the discussions helped everyone keep our children safer in the world! The childrens sessions were just as exciting. Well done to everyone you have … More E Safety at Broadwater Primary School
Oh no the Beebots have taken over in year one at Beatrix Potter Primary School. Well done to everyone for managing to tame them! You managed to control them with your instructions and even completed a lot of the challenges on the Beebot app.
Well done to both Year 2 classes for their brilliant work on Scratch Junior you really had your sprites jumping around the screen. Wonderful code blocks to create programs and fantastic debugging to get them to work!
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