Computing Round Up

Spring Term in Computing means Safer Internet Day. After a whole-school assembly, pupils in EYFS read Buddy the Dog’s Internet Safety Story and completed follow up activities to support their learning. Key Stage 1 pupils were challenged to complete “The Great Online Safety Quest” as a class and complete independent activities to solve puzzles and spot online scams. Pupils in Key Stage 2 all took part in a live interactive lesson from the BBC called ‘Scam Smashers’. This helped pupils to spot scams online by looking for the following: Sounds too good to be true, Content you did not expect, Asks for personal information, Money or trade request. They then completed a range of activities to reinforce the learning, vocabulary and key points. We also learned about ‘phishing scams’ and the importance of having a strong password.

Additionally, pupils in Year 3 have been learning about how to collect data from, and create a branching database. The children have looked at organising ‘yes or no’ questions and then using these to organise information. The children then created their own final working database. Our Year 3 pupils will also be learning how to create stop-motion animations this term.

Programming was the challenge in Year 4, with pupils creating a pattern of repeating shapes using their coding skills. Pupils created amazing images made of polygons that they drew using a logo-application.

Year 5 pupils have begun learning about branching databases and will be using these to plan an exotic holiday with information from real airline flights. They have also used their computing skills and Chromebooks this term, to compose music using YUMU through the Charanga website, creating their own music with an A B A structure.

All the pupils at Boundary continue to develop their digital literacy skills: searching the internet for information, word-processing to present their learning and discussing how to stay safe on line.