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Lesson 3: Following instructions

Understanding how the CPU and GPU work.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Fact tennis and arrange the children into pairs.

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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 iPads in the classroom. Sway was invited as a ‘lead learner’ to attend the first ever Picademy becoming a Raspberry Pi Certified Teacher. Sway has also completed the Google Innovator Academy and been a Google Coach and Mentor.

Sway has created a free KS1 lesson answering the question ‘What is a Network?’ as well as a music inspired project to make seascapes through programming among many other Computing lessons.

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Maintained by: Kapow Primary teamLast update: 15 April 2026

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