Writing and debugging algorithms

This morning in maths, Mulberrries were using their knowledge  of shapes and angles to write algorithms in Scratch. They had to do lots of debugging to get their sprite to do what they wanted. Amy got the hang of it straight away! She went to show Miss Yates her brilliant repeating patterns, with Lucas and Alfie whose work was marvellous too. Well done Mulberries!

Jambot

This week Mulberry Class have been writing their own algorithms for making a jam sandwich, after it went disastrously wrong when Miss BB turned into Jambot! Maybe she is a Jampire like Mr BB?! 

Mulberry class were brilliant at giving their instructions, then they wrote down their algorithms for future use, using flowchart symbols. Miss BB thought it was funny that lots of them only wanted their algorithm to have one choice for the decision - Do you want to make another sandwich? - YES! (I did have to tell lots of Mulberries that they need a 'no' choice so that the poor Jambot could have a rest!) 

Here are some photos of  the children testing out their algorithms before writing them. 

 

Scratch coding

On Thursday we had a go at writing algorithms using Scratch. We really enjoyed this and could use the skills that we learned from Espresso coding. We had fun making different characters and backgrounds, then making our characters move.

Digital leaders

On Tuesday afternoon the digital leaders helped year one children to use paint to create some lovely firework pictures. Mrs Tovell said they were great at helping! 

Photos by Amy 

Coding Whizz Kids

This afternoon we have been playing espresso coding on the computer.We have been learning to move objects by programming them. We had so much fun.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               by Stanley and James