Thinking of Introducing Programming in Early Years?

Looking for ideas to bring programming to a younger audience? Need ideas for outdoor ICT learning and Forest schools? Why not create a fun and engaging Forest School class with a difference...invite Blue-Bot along! Blue-Bot’s Adventure at Forest School! Mapplewells Primary and Nursery encourage outdoor learning through weekly Forest School lessons where the children head out in all weathers! A session was…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

Coding Blues? Bring in the Blue-Bots

The Blue-Bot is a small floor robot which can be easily controlled using a simple keypad on it’s outer shell. Using four arrows and a Go button, children as young as four can program its movements and watch as their simple algorithm is put into action. Used with a premade or custom grid, children can enjoy simple coding with independence, applying ad-hoc debugging skills as they go. It is rechargeable and fits…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

How to Support SEND Children with Programming

From tactile touch to touching screen Programming a computer can seem a rather abstract task. Text on a screen, interspersed with various bits of punctuation, all recognisable but somehow a bit jumbled up, which translates to an action, perhaps as an animation in front of you, or in the response of a device – a…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

Thinking of Introducing Programming in Early Years?

Coding Blues? Bring in the Blue-Bots

How to Support SEND Children with Programming

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