Bethel Baptist and Playground Computing

We've had a busy start to the week, yesterday we walked to Bethel Baptist Church to participate in Easter Cracked, a fun packed morning finding out about the Easter story. The children had a great morning and were lucky enough to leave with a chocolate egg!

Today Beth visited us from Playground Computing, a project which introduces children to computer science and coding without the use of computers. We began the session by being introduce to coding and in particular binary coding. Here is an example of the alphabet in binary code that Beth gave us.

 

We then used Binary coding to write our names which was quite tricky:

We then went out into the playground, we were given a number and had to arrange ourselves in order from smallest to largest. It was very chaotic to begin with but Beth showed us how computers do it and it was so much easier and quieter which made Miss Morgan and Mr Williams happy!

To end our session we pretending we were robots and programmers, the robot was given a blindfold and the programmer had to give them commands to finish the assault course, it was very funny watching the robots and we decided we needed a little bit more practice on directing our friends. It was a great day and more information can be found on the Playground computing website