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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 Logo

Exploring the capabilities and commands of the program Logo and creating basic designs.

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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

Mathematics

Geometry – properties of shapes

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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 that children can recall: An algorithm is when instructions are put in an exact order. Decomposition means breaking a problem into manageable chunks and can be used to create a program for a specific purpose. Using loops to repeat something in a program can make coding…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Should explore simple 2D shapes, such as squares, rectangles and triangles of different sizes.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Could discuss what would happen if they used another loop between the ‘do’ and the ‘end’; could try this by tinkering and reflecting on what happened.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: exploring ideas, testing and changing the

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Vocabulary definitions

code

A set of instructions written in programming language to tell a computer what to do.
command

To give an order or instruction to a computer to complete a particular task.

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Example work

Salisbury Road Primary School, Plymouth

Salisbury Road Primary School, Plymouth

Salisbury Road Primary School, Plymouth

Salisbury Road Primary School, Plymouth

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In this unit

Assessment - Computing Y6: Introduction to Python

Lesson 1: Tinkering with Logo

Lesson 2: Nested loops

Lesson 3: Using Python

Lesson 4: Using loops in Python

Lesson 5: Coding Mondrian

Originally created by:

Sway Grantham

Computing specialist

Sway Grantham (@SwayGrantham) is a Primary School Teacher, a CAS Master Teacher and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary ICT. She also has a BCS Certificate in Computer Science Teaching (Primary). She has written several curricula and conducted research into the impact of 1:1…

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