Computing

Year 4

Module 1

Module 1 - Computer Networks

Pupils should be taught to:

understand computer networks including the internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the world wide web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration
use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Computer networks

We begun to consider how our computers work and how they are all linked to the internet.

Our keywords for our lesson were switch, internet, router and wifi.

We tried to label key words on a picture.

Making connections

We looked at different ways that devices conect with each other to send information.

We planned routes that messages could be sent and what the easiest way to do this would be. We looked at the advantages and disadvantages of data been sent a long way and a short way to each device.

What is a website?

We explored what a website is and the different features of websites and how these may vary depending on what the purpose of the website is.

Explored the website www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc before creating our own music on chrome music lab and added these to a Doc to show that websites can all have different purposes.

When looking at websites, we have discussed who owns it and who owns the content. We thought about BBC, YouTube and other websites. We looked how websites own the page but the content on it may belong to other people.

Fake News

Can I believe what I see and read online?

Leighton Igwe - Lesson 6 Can I believe what I read?

In our lesson we learnt that sometimes people put things on the internet that is not true.

Oakleigh Dale - Lesson 6 Can I believe what I read?

We looked at different screen shots and decided what may be true and not true.

Module 2

Repetition in Shapes

Pupils should be taught to:

use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output
use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs

Maya Steel - Lesson 1

Making a code

We began to explore the programme Scratch and how we can use it to create shapes. We looked at the features of this programme and how we can use them to create instructions. The instructions will be our algorithms.

Poppy Fox - Lesson 1

We made programmes that would make a sqaure. We mde a code and then tested it.

Oliver Easton - Lesson 1

We had to be open minded as sometimes we made mistakes and then we would need to idenify our mistakes so we could try again.

Repetition and Sequence

Repetition

Repeating something over and over again. In our computing session we can repeat our code for squares, stars and octogons. In real life, we might repeat feeding our dog and lining up in the dinner hall so that we make the right choices. - Skyela

Why might we need to check our code?

We check the code so that we can check it'r correct and will do what we want it to do. Repeating a code can complete our task quicker. - Nicole

Repeating codes

We have been creating codes that uses a repeat loop. This will make our codes easier to create as we will not need to input lots of codes, just one code that we will repeat. - Oscar C

To help in this lesson we needed to know the number of shapes in a range od 2D shapes. We also need to know the angle between each side. We created division calculations on our tables.

Module 3

Photo editing

Pupils should be taught to:

select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information
use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Copy 3 Changing Digital Images

Changing digital images

We began to look at why people may edit their pictures and the affect this may have on an individual.

Copy 2 Changing Digital Images

From looking at a range of images we thought about what had been done to the image and were introduced to new language such as cropping, rotating, brightness and blurring.

Copy 1 Changing Digital Images

Using https://www.photopea.com/ we began to edit images that are linked to our studies of the Romans.

Retouching images

We looked at the tools that people use to edit their pictures. We looked at the pros and cons of doing this and the impact that this may have on someones confidence.

Internet Safety Day 2024

This year, celebrations in school and around the UK will be around the theme: Inspiring change?  Making a difference, managing influence, and navigating change online. 

Module 4

Data logging

Pupils should be taught to:

select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information

We began to consider what data is and why people collect it. Data could be the school register, lunch register, number of boys/girls or the colour of cars on the road.

We answered questions about fictional data shared with us.

We created our own questions about data we had shared with us.

We thought about who collects data and how often it is collected.

Lesson 2

This was our first lesson and we were introduced to the micro:bits. We use these to collect data. - Jade

We had to plug them into the Chromebooks so that they can collect the data. - Nicole

We had to inoput data onto the Chromebook so that the micro:bit knew what to do. - Jade and Nicole

Lesson 3

We were collecting data by looking at temperatures over a period of time. - Nicole

The data was plotted onto a line graph and a table. The table had temperature on the top and time on the bottom. - Oscar C

I think that scientists would want to know this data.

Lesson 4 - Analysis Data

We have been logging data on our micro:bits. We placed the data loggers in places around the room that could record heat, sound and light. Lots of people placed them around the window as there is more light, heat and sound. - Oscar C

Nicole - when the data logger has recorded data it will change to a love heart. Analysing data means we are looking at data to see what it shows us

Finley - there is so many numbers when I look at the data

Amelia Mooney - Student microbit Data

Lesson 6 - Asking and answering questions

We have been looking at numerical data and talking about what we could see. Then we used this data and put it into different. We then wrote about what the data shows us. - Nicole

Luna - The charts the were showing us changes in light, temperature and sound from in our classroom.

We collected the data by placing the data loggers around the room. We had to do this step by step so that our data didn't get deleted. - Jacob

Amia Ajayi - Student microbit Data

Erin Hardwick - Student microbit Data

Module 5