Year 6 had a fantastic time putting their programming, coding and debugging skills to the test at Nissan!
On Wednesday, Year 3 had a visit from Mrs Chipchase who works at the word. She showed us how to use the free website, Pictoblox, to program Toby the teddy bear. We really enjoyed adding sound to our creations to help Toby play music on the stage.
We had a great time exploring the Lego Spike kits and making our robots.
Today a group of 5 Year 6 pupils went to OpenZone @ The Word to take part in a cyber security event. We were joined by some other schools from South Tyneside. The iBelong Cyber Event showed us how important password security is. We learned about how passwords are hacked, and had a go at cracking the code on the BBC Microbit. We learned about AI – Artificial Intelligence, and how computers learn. Our teams chose anonymous user names in the quiz to check how impersonation or identity theft can damage our reputation. We were Burger, Apple and Ronald!
It was a fun day, and we did really well at the quiz at the end.
Y6 had a great time at Nissan exploring technology.
In Computing in Year 2 we have been exploring musical instruments. We have been looking at how to use an ipad to make music and this week we compared real instruments with the ipad bands.
Computing club had a great time getting our micro:bits to light up! We can’t wait to see what they can do next week.
Yesterday, Mr Roberts from The Word came to show Y5 how crumbles work and what their applications can be. We connected our crumbles up to different components to make lights flash, motors run and even added a switch to our circuits.
We used code to help us control the devices.
As part of our new video editing unit in computing, the children were investigating different filming techniques when recording videos. They tested out different angles and talked about the effect it had on the video.
To celebrate National Coding Week, a mixture of Y4 and Y5 children accessed a program which gradually builds up their coding skills. We used Rodo Codo from the Code Hour and the children loved it! They were much better than Mrs Hanratty at creating effective code.
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