Our Year 5 and 6 students have a specialist subject called DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY. Last term they focused on coding, using individual iPads they learned to create simple code using an app called ScratchJr.
Students created backgrounds and characters which are called sprites. They made animations with their sprites moving, talking, interacting and reacting by using code.
It was interesting to learn that all computers need to be coded in order to function, and to see how every little step or movement from a character is coded in advance. Students were able to showcase their learning to either their own class or a junior in the school. This added the opportunity to present and explain their coding work to an audience.
- Ms Simone Hocking