Blog Author: Mr Smith

Here is a selection of activities for the Christmas holidays. Check back regularly for more updates!

Google Santa Tracker

Google Santa tracker allows you to play a variety of games and on Christmas Eve updates to allow you to track Santa's progress throughout his night of delivering…

Across the school, we have been taking part in the Hour of Code. Pupils in KS1 and Lower KS2 were taught about algorithms through a computing dance party which you can see clips of in the video below. Pupils across the school have also used the Code.org website to practice their coding in either…

This week Year R have been exploring the school grounds with iPads and taking photos of various things around the school. Here is a slideshow with some of the photos taken today:

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working on Halloween related activities in Computing with pupils using their skills on Google Slides to move words onto a Halloween background. This presented the challenge of limited word choices and being unable to add new words the pupils had to work…

Across the school we have been learning how to use binary code within our Computing lessons. 

In Year 3, we created artwork using the binary code for the letters of our names. Here are some examples of our work:

On Tuesday, Year 5 experienced a Virtual Field Trip using the Skype in the Classroom scheme to connect the year group with the Intrepid Sea, Air, Space Museum in New York City! 

During the call, we were connected with the museum and shown around the exhibits such as the Space Shuttle Pavilion…