Year 2

NC:

Pupils use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies. 

Pupils use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content 

We started the Autumn term with Internet Safety – fact or fake. Following on from discussions about whether we believed everything on the internet, we looked at The Loch Ness Monster and the evidence for it's existence. We then created a design for what it might look like.

NC:

Pupils use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content 

Pupils create and debug simple programs

Pupils use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs 

In Aut2 Year 2 went on a virtual trip to Windsor castle before learning to accurately use the rectangle shape tool and draw their own drawing of Windsor Castle. We thought about stones colours and solid shapes to make our designs. We then turned our artwork into a jigsaw puzzle and enjoyed solving and rebuilding our own and each other's work.

Year 2 completed an Hour of Code in December and had great fun solving coding puzzles with direction, sequence  and logic.

NC:

understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions 

Pupils create and debug simple programs

Pupils use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs 

In Spring 1 Year 2 created step by step instructions, and performed them learning what an algorithm is. They then made a map for use with a programmable robot.  The children enjoyed programming instructions for the Beebots and took turns deciding where they should go. They also had a go with the more complicated Probots which required 90 degree angles and distance rather than just steps.

NC: Pupils use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content 

In Spring 2 Year 2 based their work on recycling. We made a poster, an animated story with text, pics, movement and sound and finally created an interactive recycling game. We enjoyed designing the game programming it and testing it before sharing it with the class. We played each other's creations and gave feedback on what we liked about it.

NC: Pupils use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content 

In Summer 1 Year 2 looked at modern art. In each lesson we studied an artist and learned about their motivation, technique, colours and style. We discussed the works and how we felt about it then made our own version inpired by their art. We learned how to use lots of different art tools and became very skilled in saving and naming our work. The artists we investigated were Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, and Georgia O'Keefe.