Blog by Tag: Computing

This morning, the children in Year 4 have participated in the BBC Live Lesson for Safer Internet Day 2025.  The children have learnt how to spot, avoid and report online scams.

Here is a slection of our fabulous posters we have created in our computing lesson this week. We have been inspired by our recent visit to Port Sunlight to create a poster to advertise the delights and experiences it has to offer! Well done!

Year 2 are learning to debug a Bee bot programme in a pretend toy shop!

Knowledge:: I can debug programs of increasing complexity

Skills: to use the commands of "forwards, backwards, left and right" to enable the Bee bot to move and to "debug" an incorrect action

Vocab: forwards,…

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.