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Winton meet the Prime Minister!
Monday 8th December 2014
What an incredible morning! Today Year 6 and some Year 5 ‘s from Winton were invited to visit Number 10 Downing Street to take part in an exclusive ‘Hour of Code’ event and meet the Prime Minister, David Cameron! We used a programming language on http://code.org/ to create Winter Wonderland scenes with Anna and Elsa from Disney’s Frozen, then we used http://scratch.mit.edu/ to design our own games. Well done to everybody for a fantastic morning coding and for representing Winton so brilliantly.
The Facilities Manager from the Prime Minister’s Office complimented us as being the “best behaved class he had seen for a very long time”, and the tutors who were from Barclays Bank said, “We couldn’t have had a better group of children for this event. Their coding skills are excellent and we are so impressed with the games they created in such a short time!”. A special well done to Abdul, Luke and Ruby who were chosen to present the games they coded to the rest of the group and to Ubaid who got to shake hands with the Prime Minister himself!
Did you enjoy your morning? What did you learn? What will you take from this experience? Will you continue coding? How do you think this opportunity may affect your future and your decisions?
Check us out in the news here! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2864795/Cameron-drive-maths-science.html
Scratch Tinkering 1.12.2014
Hi Mars class,
This afternoon we have been learning about algorithms and the importance of a clear, precise sequence of instructions. What else did we discuss this afternoon? Can you remember any of our key words and what they mean?
What did you discover when you explored Scratch? Tell me all about your tinkering experience here!
Miss Bates 🙂
E-team Meeting
Hi e-teamers!
What ideas do you have for the e-team this year at Winton? What would you like us to achieve? Share your ideas by posting a comment here.
Miss Bates 🙂
6th October 2014
Hi Saturn Class,
We have had a great afternoon coding! Well done for publishing your area calculator apps, and for some of you super coders, your conversion calculator app too. You can see your apps by logging on to www.espressocoding.co.uk.
Tell me about your learning this afternoon… What apps did you create? How? Think about the language we discussed. What do these new Computing words mean?
Great work everyone!
Miss Bates 🙂
Friday 20th June – Kodu
Hi Saturn,
This afternoon was so much fun! What did you learn? Did you like programming with Kodu? Can you tell us what an algorithm is?
post your comments here!
Tuesday 17th June 2014 – JIT Turtle
Hi Mercury Class,
I hope you have fun this afternoon using JIT to control the online butterfly around the garden. Did you create a set of step by step instructions for the butterfly to get to a flower? What do we call a sequence of instructions in Computing?
Gold star for anyone who can blog that special computing word here, and explain what it means!
If you have time, leave a comment for your friends.
Miss Bates 🙂