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Subjects

Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 1: Tinkering with Sonic Pi

Children are introduced to Sonic Pi and given the opportunity to explore its capabilities and learn about debugging.

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Learning objective

To tinker with a new piece of software.

Success criteria

I can predict what I think something new

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

Design,

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Cross-curricular links

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

Appreciate

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit you might want to check children can recall: To use past experiences to help solve new problems. To use decomposition to understand the purpose of a script of code. To use decomposition to help solve problems.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the basic command sheet provided to help support spelling and syntax.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could discuss what they think would happen if they put another loop between ‘do’ and the ‘end’ after they have used one loop; should try this (tinker) and reflect on what happened.

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