A Barefoot Computing introductory programming activity for lower-primary children learning computing. Using the iPad app Scratch Jr, children are given the opportunity to develop skills by tinkering with existing programs as well as creating their own. Children might be offered the chance to tinker with other basic...

Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their...

This Barefoot Computing primary school resource helps children to Understand how search engines work. By acting as a ‘web crawler’ and collecting information across a small selection of web pages, they learn what in data is indexed by search engines and how this is used when a search query is received. As well as...

This interactive online self-driving challenge from Siemens can supplement robotics education in computing. It enables pupils to programme a car to drive around a circuit without a driver, the circuits getting more complex as the challenge progresses.

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The joy and challenge of building ‘cheap and cheerful’ sensors has a wide appeal to adults as well as children. It also opens a wide number of links to aspects of the mathematics, science, computing, design and technology, and engineering curricula, supporting scientific investigation and discovery. These...

In this activity children will understand what is meant by ‘personal information’ and what this means in the digital world.

The main objective of this session is to understand what algorithms are.

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The main objective of this session is to understand what debugging and logical reasoning is, by using a 2D drawing and algorithm...

In this activity children will consider the personal information that might be appropriate to provide to a given person.  

The main objective of this session is to understand what logical reasoning is in context, by using a mathematics sequence activity...

In this activity children will increase their personal security online in this session through recognising and creating strong and...

In this activity children will discuss the dangers of online situations and think of ways to avoid these. 

There are a set of e-safety scenario cards in the downloadable files. This is a chance for anyone in your household to be joining in and discussing the impact. Remember your SMART rules when staying...

The main objective of this session is to understand what pattern spotting is in context, by using a series of recipes.

The main objective of this session is to understand sorting algorithms in the context of a ‘bubble sort’ activity

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In this activity children will start to understand what illegal downloading is and the risks associated with this.