Sonning Common Primary School

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Finished Easter movies

Our Digital Leaders, who are chosen from each year group in KS2, have spent this term making stop frame animation films with the theme of Easter. Today they showed their completed films in assembly and we thought you’d like to see them too. They worked really hard designing and making the props, filming in iPads […]

Digital Leaders make Easter movies

This term the 7 Digital Leaders have been busy making Easter animated movies. They have carefully planned their story boards, made backgrounds and props and almost finished filming. We can’t wait to see the results.

MICROBITS

Microbits are really amazing we would like some more.  They are easy to programme and we made one with a compass and leds lights to find a transmitter.

Microbit

Before half term we worked on microbits  Digital leaders would like some more. We were thinking of a day for microbits where we can show what they do so we can try to get money to buy some more.

microbit

Before half term we used microbits to make a treasure hunt.  We programmed one as a transmitter and one as a receiver.

treasure hunt!

Before half term digital leaders did a treasure hunt using BBC micro bits.  Please do my micro bit treasure hunt because it’s fun.   Here is a pic of a micro bit  

Digital Leaders test BBC micro:bits

We were lucky enough to receive a class set of BBC micro:bits this week, thanks to Nominet for donating them to us.  The Digital Leaders were excited to be the first pupils to have a go and write their own programmes and see the lights flashing and music playing.

Computing

Last term for year 5 computing we were pretending to be app developers. We made art galleries in SketchUp. Because of that we learnt how to import images from google. Right now we’re making cool tessellations with different shapes in power point. Like this one:    

Digital Leaders is lots of Fun

Being a digital leader is lots of fun. Today we planned our new blog!!!

Digital Leaders explain Safer Internet Day

Safer internet day! Safer internet day took place on the Tuesday 7th February. what is it all about? It is all about staying safe online! Here are a few tips to stay safe: Never give any personal information! Don’t leave your computer logged on! Don’t download stuff without permission Tell a grownup if something bad […]