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The COMPUTING Curriculum
A free tool, Scratch is a programming tool that allows users to create almost anything and try their hand at coding in a user friendly drag and drop coding block manner. That's not to say that it's easy, it takes some time to navigate the tools, the workspace and the various blocks, and i still haven't gotten anywhere near understanding them all yet! Help is on hand however, with lots of activities online through the hour of code, as well as projects and activities on the mic scratch page itself, Scratch allows you to self learn through interacting and playing with it.
Year 3
Year 3 have been able to piece together a simple story using Scratch2 this term in place of using Scratch Jr on the iPads, which they used to good effect last year. navigating the online version, children told the story of Boudicca and the Romans and were able to recreate a scene to tell a story, importing or creating their own backgrounds and characters and making them move with the programming that they've done.
Year 4
Year 5
Year 5 have used this coding tool to replicate that of MS Logo, the 'turtle' software that allowed use to recreate patterns in spirograph fashion by entering lines of code and instructions. Now its case of connecting the blocks, but it still requires the same understanding of angles within shape and equivalence in length etc.
There blog link below shows a little of what they did in their pursuit to crate geometric islamic art style patterns, and how they programmed in Scratch to do this. (They even worked out a problem that was bugging me for ages! Children are superb problem solvers!) Keep referring to see the types of patters they created and how they are progressing this term!
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AuthorWith the computing curriculum becoming more about coding, creation and collaboration over the basics of word processing and document making, The curriculum we deliver needs to change. Here you can see what we are doing to work on and develop this using what we have available to us. . Archives
June 2016
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