AS THE WINTER starts to take hold, snow and ice is starting to appear around the Island - as shown in this view of the Bus outside Kewaigue School today.
Inside though it was ‘toasty’ with the boys and girls from Key Stage 2 getting to grips with some of the programming tools available to them.
As well as SCRATCH - the boys and girls and their teachers were also introduced to FLOWOL which uses on screen ‘mimics’ to model real life situations from a simple zebra crossing to quite complex situations involving sensors, feedback and variables. (We didn’t get that far today)
After school it was a ‘Twilight’ session for all the teachers who were however able to take the work further, with extended sessions on both FLOWOL and SCRATCH - with everyone attempting to create a TT Game.
It turns out that many of the Kewaigue teachers have previous experience of programming - either at university, college or when programming was at the forefront of the scholl curriculum twenty years ago. So much of this was remarkably straightforward for them and means that they are well set to progress this at Kewaigue in the comping months and years.
Tomorrow - Rhumsaa...
