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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...