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Coding with Beebots @RRIS
This half term the Digital Leaders have been leading sessions writing algorithms for Beebots. They have been using direction cards to write out the algorithm before keying this into the Beebot. As the Beebot moves they have been checking that the algorithm is correct and identifying any place where there is a bug. They set … Continue reading
Safer Internet Day 2024 @RRIS
As part of SID week 2024 the Year 2 children played their Esafety Board Games that they had created last term with the Year 1 children. We split each class into 2 groups and all the children worked together and had a chance to sample all the games in their group. The Year 2 children … Continue reading
Interland Online Safety @RRIS
A lot of our learning, especially in Year 2 is accessed via weblinks on our school website so that children can use these websites at home with an adult if they wish. It is very important that we know how to access websites safely and what sort of information we can share with people we … Continue reading
Website Research @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders thought about how to access and use a website safely to research some information. The Year 1 children wanted to know some facts about an amazing fish that was found in America and asked if the Year 2 children could answer some questions about it for them. “I can’t believe … Continue reading
Creating Avatars @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders used weblinks from our school website to create, save a print their own avatar. We discussed why it would be necessary to use an avatar rather than a real photograph of yourself, and what sort of information we should share with people on line, who we have never met in … Continue reading
Finishing Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to search for and add the Christmas Pixabay images they saved in their files. There were a few new steps to learn to navigate to their pictures within Textease, but supporting each other to remember the steps they all completed the task and were really pleased how they … Continue reading
Text for Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to use some additional features in Textease to create the text for the inside of their Christmas cards. All the children are confident with creating text using Textease so we learnt how to adjust our paper so that it was in landscape view and was smaller so that … Continue reading
Saving Images from Pixabay @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to use the website Pixabay to source and download images to use in their Christmas cards. We talked about how important it was that we simply couldn’t use pictures and text from the internet without getting permission from the person who created it. We learnt that there are … Continue reading
Creating a Branching Database @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to make a branching database game using j2e Branch. We chose 6 animals and then wrote questions to divide those animals in to two categories, Yes and No – a bit like playing Guess Who. At the end we played the game with our partner, who chose an … Continue reading
Making Digital Music @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders experimented with Musiclab to make music. There are 14 different activities to try and they especially liked Kandinsky where you draw shapes on the screen and those shapes make different musical sounds. They also liked Song Maker where you could click on the spaces for musical notes and also add … Continue reading