An A-Z of all our units!

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Year 5)

About this unit: Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following NC strands:  use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results…

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Year 6)

About this unit: Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following NC strands:  use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results…

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Year 7)

About this unit Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media. A note about this unit The lessons in this unit or work are taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their…

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Year 8)

About this unit Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media. A note about this unit The lessons in this unit or work are taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their…

Finding and Presenting Information

About this unit: Introduce students to this great block-based programming language to create animations and games perfect for KS1. Write and debug algorithms, learn about repeating, and different triggers to create actions. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  use technology purposefully to create, organise,…

Getting started with a Crumble

About this unit: Explore the fantastic microcontroller that is the Crumble. Learn about inputs, outputs, electrical circuits and controlling LEDs and motors as you embark on a range of exciting physical computing STEM projects.  National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  design, write and debug…

Getting started with Kodu

About this unit: Introduce students to creating games with Kodu. Program your characters and design your 3D worlds to make exciting collecting and racing  games. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating…

Inside the internet

About this unit: Get under the skin of the Internet to investigate what the internet is, how the web works, how it’s built and written with HTML code. Then learn how to create your own web pages written in HTML and CSS. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the…

Keep safe and create

About this unit: A combination of 3 lessons from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum and the chance for your students to apply their learning to digital making activities that would help them share the important online safety messages with others.  National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan cover the…

Keeping Safe and Exploring Technology

About this unit: Help children stay safe and understand what a healthy use of technology is. Then explore the technology in our homes and businesses and get hands on with control equipment to figure out how it all works. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan covers the following National Curriculum…

Kodu – An independent project

About this unit: Give your class the opportunity to unleash their full creative and coding potential with this independent Kodu project. Students will work independently to plan, design, test and evaluate their own Kodu game, using a resource bank of ideas to support them.  National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan…

Kodu Sports

About this unit: Three exciting projects to extend previous use of Kodu and give students an opportunity to create 3D video games based on sports and well known games. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals,…

LEGO Robotics

About this unit Introduce students to robotics with the awesome  LEGO Robots! Control their movement with precise calculations and coding, then utilise the robot’s sensors to interact with its environment and solve problems. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  design, write and debug programs…

Lego WeDo – Mechanisms and Machines

About this unit: Combine computing with design and technology as you learn about a range of mechanisms and the motion they create in machines using the LEGO WeDo kits. Then write code to bring your machines to life and control them with the motor and sensors in the kits. Engineering has never been so much…

Making Multimedia Stories

Introduce students to this great block-based programming language to create animations and games perfect for KS1. Write and debug algorithms, learn about repeating, and different triggers to create actions. Suggested Software Scratch Jr is a FREE app available for       A open source version for Windows and Mac is now also available Download the…