Digital Helpers
Safer Internet Week @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders and Helpers have been looking at online safety activities using Espresso to share these with their class this week. They also completed a school Technology Survey so that we can see how children at our school are using devices and the internet at home. This week in school we also … Continue reading
Esafety Helpers Lunch Club @RRIS
Next week in school is Internet Safety Week and so the Digital Helpers came to lunch club to write some special questions for our radio show tomorrow afternoon. They thought about questions that every year group would be able to answer. They worked in pairs and decided who was going to read the question and … Continue reading
Making Our Board Games @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders started the process of drawing out their esafety board games on to the computer using Textease. We used the snap to grid function so that it was easy to copy the board that we had drawn the week before. We filled all the squares with colours and then picked some … Continue reading
Trying Makey Makey @RRIS
This week at the Digital Helpers lunch club we tried out Makey Makey! We followed all the instructions to put the circuit together with the board and all the clips and leads. It looked rather complicated to start with once we understood what to do it was easy! We tried two different Makey Makey apps … Continue reading
Designing E-Safety Board Games @RRIS
This week the digital leaders have been completing an unplugged activity designing an E-Safety board game for the Year 1 children. Firstly we talked about internet safety rules and how important it was that everyone knew them and remembered to use them when they were on a computer, tablet, phone or any other device that … Continue reading
Using Pixabay Search @RRIS
This week the digital leaders found out that the tree octopus we learnt about last time wasn’t real!!!! We understand that it is important to check facts more than once before we believe everything we read – especially if we have doubts. This week our new learning was focused on using the image search Pixabay … Continue reading
Helpers Lunch Club @RRIS
A new group of helpers enjoyed getting to have a play around with the Spheroes and Ollies!
First Ever Digital Helper Meeting @RRIS
This year the Digital Helpers have their own dedicated meeting and the first one was held this week. We have some exciting Ollies and Spheros which are programmable robots that you can steer! The Digital Helpers worked with a partner and really enjoyed exploring what they could do. They couldn’t wait to go and tell their … Continue reading
Using the Internet @RRIS
This week the digital leaders and helpers have been learning the basics of using an internet browser. They have been learning how to use lots of tabs at the same time (multi-tab browsing) and switching between the tabs also minimizing and maximizing the screen. We also talked about what to do if we ever came … Continue reading
Meet Our New Digital Leaders @RRIS
After a bit of a delayed start the new Digital Leaders were finally announced this afternoon – here they all are! They can’t wait to get started on their new job next week. This year we are having 4 Leaders in each of our year 2 classes, with 2 Helper guests each meeting to join us. The … Continue reading