This video introduces RotoCodo, a web based coding platform where children solve puzzles by directing a cat to its goal. They create algorithms by dragging and dropping arrow commands into...

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Teacher video: Kodable

This video introduces Kodable, a web based platform used to teach coding skills through interactive puzzles. Children solve mazes by dragging and dropping arrows to create an algorithm that guides...

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Teacher video: Algorithms and debugging unit overview

This teacher video outlines how children build on their Year 1 learning by using more precise computing vocabulary. They move from describing instructions to understanding algorithms as sets of commands...

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Teacher video: Exploring Python unit overview

This Computing video introduces teachers to the Year 6 unit on text-based programming using Python and the micro:bit. It supports teachers in understanding how children transition from block-based coding to written...

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Teacher video: Opening and downloading a .hex file

This Computing video introduces teachers to downloading and opening .hex files in the Python editor, supporting them in preparing files and managing children’s work during lessons. The video explains the...

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Teacher video: Nested loops in Python

This Computing video introduces teachers to nested loops, explaining how an outer loop controls larger steps while an inner loop repeats smaller actions to create patterns in two directions. It...

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EYFS Computing overview

Give your youngest learners the best possible start to their computing journey with our EYFS Computing Scheme. This engaging and hands-on collection of lessons introduces early computing skills through play-based...

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Teacher video: Debugging in Key stage 1

This Computing video introduces teachers to the concept of debugging. It explains that a set of computing instructions is called an algorithm and that debugging means finding and fixing errors,...

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Teacher video: Commands unplugged

This Computing video introduces teachers to the concepts of commands and instructions, supporting them in helping younger pupils understand how computers and robots follow well-ordered actions. It explains that commands...

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