Computing
Through the study of computing including internet safety, our pupils will develop an understanding of digital literacy, information technology and computer sciences. Children will become confident and competent with programming; will know how to use technology safely, including all mobile devices, and will be able to report unsafe activity or content appropriately including through CEOP.
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Children will learn subject specific vocabulary relating to their year group, this can be accessed by clicking on this document:
Programming with Purple Mash
Year 4 pupils used Purple Mash to learn basic programming skills. They gave commands such as forward, back, and turn to control a character and create shapes on the screen. By putting the commands in the right order, they were able to make shapes like squares and...
Internet Safety Day
Tuesday 10th February was Internet Safety Day. At St Aidan's we recognise Internet Safety everyday, but always do something extra special about the theme. 2026's theme is AI. AI is now interwoven into everyday digital tools—recommendation algorithms, voice assistants,...
Online Safety
Firstly, I would like to thank all the parents and carers for attending our online safety session this week. I know all the children really enjoyed showing you their work from the computing curriculum. Secondly, as promised, I have uploaded the information from the...
We are bloggers!
This half term in Computing, we have been learning about and writing our own blogs. We began by reading a range of blogs and creating a list of success criteria for an effective blog. Then we used a planning tool on Purple Mash to plan what our blog would be about and...
Our School Councillor Speeches
Today in class, the children who had prepared and planned their school councillor speeches had the chance to speak to their peers about why they should be chosen as Year 5 school councillor. The children showed so much confidence! We have so many children who have put...
Computing – Systems and Searching
Our Computing topic this half term is ‘Systems and Searching’. First, we discussed the question, ‘What does the word system mean?’ Some comments included: ‘A journey’ ‘A system will be used for apps such as YouTube and Amazon’ ’The World Wide Web plays a part in lots...
Our Week in Nursery…
We have had another fun-filled, busy and exciting week in Nursery. Our focus story this week was ‘Pirates love underpants’. “These pirates SO love underpants. They’re on a special quest to find the fabled Pants of Gold, for the Captain’s treasure chest.” On the Art...
Creating our own artwork
In our Computing lessons, we have enjoyed using Purple Mash to create pictures using the tool, 2Paint A Picture. So far, we have explored different styles of art such as impressionism and pointillism. We then created our own artwork based upon these styles.
Spreadsheets – Maths Game Challenge
Today Year 4 were challenged to create their own multiplication game using the skills and tools they have learnt with Spreadsheets. The children were able to successfully use and include the following in their game; the timer, the random number selector, the spinner...
Our First Week Back in Nursery…
We have all had a fabulous, busy first week back after half term! In Maths, we have learnt about the number 4. We showed representations of number 4 on our fingers, on domino cards and numicon. We also made our own number blocks man by joining together blocks of 1 up...