A date for your diary for schools that fall under the Park House Computing Hub (or beyond if you wish!), covering: Portsmouth, Gosport, Basingstoke, Newbury, Bracknell, Reading). Wednesday September 22nd 2021: join myself and other experts for networking, advice, guidance and to share best practice in your computing curriculum. Click here for more info: TeachMeet... Continue Reading →
I had the honour of authoring the KS2 Physical Computing course for the NCCE over the Spring and got to deliver the course for the first time this summer term! Getting to grips with the Crumble Build, wire, code, watch! The course aims to introduce teachers to the Crumble micro controller; a lovely piece of... Continue Reading →
My fabulous Year 5 pupils have been busy applying their skills and knowledge to design their own robotic systems! Following the 4 levels of abstraction (see below for links on my approach to physical computing), they have gone from design algorithm... To coding... To building and wiring... To finally running the code and evaluating!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6wfa_VPS9I... Continue Reading →
Run Don't Walk 