Coding progression at Kingsley

In Reception, the children create programs to make the BeeBots move around the room. The children have a fabulous time learning what the buttons on the BeeBot do and exploring how to make it move forwards, backwards, left and right. 

Year 2 enjoy completing 2code activities on Purple Mash to demonstrate how much their skills have developed since using Scratch Junior on the iPads in Year 1. Now they use words to create algorithms and need to use "when" and "if" to make different events happen. 

Year 3 have a blast developing their own Shark Game on Scratch. They use some very technical vocabulary and codes to make the sprites (characters) move around the screen they even join some of the codes to make their sprites follow the mouse and move in certain directions. It is great fun writing algorithms to make sharks catch the fish and very challenging to make a scoreboard! 

Year 4 explore codes in sorting algorithms work. They use the words 'else' and 'when' in codes to give other options to follow. They try to beat an intelligent piece of paper at noughts and crosses by following the strict codes that had been given. 

Year 5 enjoy designing and writing their own games using gaming software - Kodu. The children use all of the skills they learn in previous years to program sprites and make them move around a world they design themselves. Some very technical algorithms are often used well here.

Year 3 have had a fantastic time exploring new software and have recently started looking at making and modifying music using technology. Doesn't it look fun?

Year 6 have been starting to look at Sketch Up. This is Computer Aided Design software and it is a very technical and tricky program. To start this topic, the children have started to look at drawing with perspective in order to design a Mayan Temple. 

Year 5 have developed their Digital Literacy skills well in Autumn. They used Microsoft Power Point to design their own interactive quizzes and some of them even successfully used hyperlinks to link their pages. Fantastic work guys!

Year 4 have been demonstrating some wonderful Digital Literacy Skills when they have been making Power Points. Well done guys! You have thought very carefully about how to present your wonderful research.  

Year 3 have been thinking about the importance of security settings and keeping things private. Some wonderful explanations have been given about why passwords need to be secure. 

Year 6 have worked had to master the art of Computer Aided design and it certainly wasn't easy. They completed a number of task in order to design a temple for the Mayans.

They even wrote their own brief from a problem.  They then addressed the brief using Sketch Up 8. They all put in a great deal of effort but it definitely paid off! Well done guys!