Blog by Tag: Computing

Year 2 have been programming a Beebot in order to travel around the world as aviators!

Knowledge: to program a programmable toy

Skills: to use the directional buttons to move the Beebot

Vocab: forwards, backwards, left, right, clear

Y6 Online Safety.

Today's lesson was focussed on 'trust' online. We have helped the children with great tips as to how to know if we can trust the reliability of a website.

eg look out for the 'padlock' symbol. Also, the 's' on 'https' stands for 'secure'. If the website starts with…

Year 2 have been learning about Online Safety and how to access the internet safely using key words.  They have accessed the internet using Google to find information about Tenerife.

Knowledge: to use keywords in an online search to find key information about a topic.

Skills: to work…

In Year 5 this afternoon, we looked at how we should cite websites in our work.

We learned about plagiarism, sources, and bibliographies.  We learned why it's important to cite where we have got our information from and when.

Well done Year 5!

This afternoon, Year 5 explored the world of coding where they had to program a car to move at different speeds after pressing go.

We did come across bugs which meant we had to debug it.

Well done Year 5!

Owning your own work. 

In Year 5, students learned about the importance of recognizing and avoiding online spam. They discovered that spam often includes unsolicited emails with too-good-to-be-true offers, which can be scams designed to steal personal information. To stay safe, students were taught to never click on…

As part of our Online Safety learning, children in Year 4 have been thinking about how online messages can be hurtful.  The children have been exploring how they should respond to a hurtful message.