Posts by Neil Brown
A Parent’s Guide to Keeping Your Children Safe Online
As children become more connected and tech-savvy, ensuring their safety online is a top priority for parents. However, with the ever-changing digital landscape, it can be overwhelming to keep up. This guide offers quick, practical tips and handy tools to help you keep your children safe online and navigate online safety confidently, whether it’s managing…
Read MoreLEGO Robotics for Business at TechNExt 24
Education North Tyneside, the school improvement service for North Tyneside Council, has announced their participation in the TechNExt fringe festival with its event, LEGO Robotics for Business. This interactive workshop aims to connect local organisations with the incredible global STEM programme, FIRST LEGO League, a robotics and life-skills competition for 9-16 year olds. As the…
Read MoreNew connections
We are really excited to have been making some new connections in the last couple of weeks. We have now launched our LEGO Robotics for Business programme and are looking out for North East businesses to engage with. We’ve already been talking to lots of companies and organisations with STEM links, and now have events,…
Read MoreLEGO Robotics for Business
After some really successful trial events, we are delighted to launch our LEGO® Robotics for Business service this week. The scheme is designed to offer a fantastic team-building experience to north east businesses while also engaging them in STEM education in our region. Events are built on our hugely successful FIRST® LEGO® League programme, where…
Read MoreNew sections added
We have added a number of brand new sections to our site, including a new look home page to give you quick access to the main features. Our fantastic computing scheme of work still takes pride of place, but now in its own section. A new page has been added to give more information on…
Read MoreNew unit! – Starting from Scratch
We have added another brand new unit of work to our collection, to further improve the way coding is taught at the beginning of Key Stage 2. We’d recommend this unit for Year 3 students. Starting from Scratch adopts the PRIMM method of teaching computer science. Research suggests that this method lays strong foundations in…
Read MoreNew unit! – Kodu an independent project
We have added a brand new unit of work to our Key Stage 2 computer science collection! Kodu – An independent project, does what the title suggests and gives your class the opportunity to unleash their full creative and coding potential with Kodu Game Lab. Students will work independently to plan, design, test and evaluate…
Read MoreBuilding and coding
Kodu – An Independent Project Objectives To independently create a 3D environment appropriate for a specific video game genre To design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals. Use logical reasoning to explain how code works and to detect and correct errors in programs Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Student independent help guide Kodu -…
Read MoreEvaluate
Kodu – An Independent Project Objectives To make judgements about digital content when evaluating it. To use evaluation criteria to identify and suggest improvements. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Student independent help guide Kodu – An independent Project Part 1 – Research Part 2- Planning Part 3 – Building and coding Part 4 – Evaluate The final part of…
Read MorePlanning
Kodu – An independent Project Objectives Create a detailed plan for a video game Clearly explain the key features of a video game plan Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Game planning sheet – We recommend this is copied on A3 paper Student independent help guide Kodu – An independent Project Part 1 – Research Part 2-…
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