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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
Creating Fake Website @RRIS
Did you spot it? The website about the Amazing Fish? Yes that’s right – it was fake!!!! To teach the Year 2 children a really important message about not reading everything you believe on the internet, I created my own fake website all about a fish that was living in a sandpit. I made sure … 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
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
Colouring our Board Game @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders used their knowledge to colour their board games, adding colour blocks to the track, a jazzy background and text at the start and finish plus the title. “I’ve never had to add writing into a box before, it’s not that difficult and you can pick it up and move it … Continue reading
Our Job Role @RRIS
Here is our new job role for 2023-24 – we can’t wait to support everyone.
Drawing our board game @RRIS
This week the digital leaders learnt how to draw out their board game plans on to paper, ready to transfer their design to the computer next week. The tracks are going to be in a 1,2,3 pattern so that there will be spaces to put in words to send people backwards and forward spaces if … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year!
We are all so excited to start the new year and our very first digital leader meeting! This half term we are designing and making board games to share with the year 1 children, reminding them about how to keep safe when using the computer. To do this we are going to use Textease to … Continue reading