25th March 2024
This half term in Year 1 the children have been exploring technology and how it can help them. They have become more familiar with the different components of a computer by developing their keyboard and mouse skills and they have also started to consider how to use technology responsibly. They have written some rules to follow when using their devices.
11th March 2024
Today in Computing the children identified the main parts of computers and used a computer mouse to draw a picture. We created pictures of computers deciding whether to draw a laptop or a desktop. Some of the children used text boxes to add the screen, keyboard, mouse (trackpad) and base unit.
February 2024
In Year 1, the children have been selecting appropriate colours, brush sizes and brush tools to independently create their own image in the style of an artist. The created a sunflower in the style of Georges Seurat using Pointillism.
We also created Kandinsky’s circles and Henri Matisse’s snail.
January 2024
Year 1 have been using shapes and lines in Paintz App. They learned to make marks with the square and line tools, use the shape and line tools effectively and use the shape and line tools to recreate the work of an artist – Piet Mondrian.
November 2023
In our Beebots at the Toy Shop lesson. Children in Year 1 programmed their robots to travel to different items.
October 2023
Year 1 have been exploring the app – Line camera, adding filters, text and stickers.
September 2023
Year 1 enjoyed their first opportunity to use the school iPads.
We explored an app called Chatterpix where the children were able to manipulate digital photographs by adding stickers, frames, text and filters. They used the microphone to record some information about themselves.
January 2023
May 2022
Children in Year 1 have created a ‘Missing Toy’ poster using a word processor program. They enjoyed exploring the different buttons available on the toolbar, using these to change their own text. They used the shift key to add capital letters to their writing, The children are now beginning to understand when it is best to change the look of their text and which tool will achieve the most appropriate outcome. Year 1 were able to use their mouse cursor to select text to enable them to make more efficient changes and explored the different fonts and colours available to them in order to change the font for their lost toy poster.
September 2021
Year 1 enjoyed their first opportunity to use the school iPads. We explored an app called Chatterpix where the children were able to manipulate digital photographs by adding stickers, frames, text and filters. They used the microphone to record some information about themselves. Some of their work can be seen here. (Apologies for the background noise. We were all creating our videos at the same time!)
June 2021
The children have been creating Birthday cards today.
April 2021
Children in Year 1 have been adding and removing text by creating Lost posters. We used the ‘shift ‘return’ ‘space’ and ‘backspace’ keys.
May 2020
Children at home have created pictures of flowers they have found in their garden or on a walk using paintz.app
November 2019 – Year 1 have been visiting the Beebot Toyshop. We programmed the Beebot to travel to different toys.
April 2019 – Year 1 have been selecting and using appropriate painting tools to create and change images on the computer.
They have recreated Handa carrying her basket of fruits.
Tristan
Tarini
Adil