Archived unit: Programming 1: Further coding with Scratch
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This unit has been replaced by the refreshed unit Programming 1: Further coding with scratch. The refreshed unit contains new lessons, teacher skills videos and new pupil videos to help support confident coding in the classroom for both staff and pupils.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand how to create a simple script in Scratch – be able to change sprite and prevent the sprite from rotating.
- Use decomposition to identify key features and understand how to decipher actions that make the quiz game work.
- Understand what a variable is and how to use the ‘say’ and ‘ask’ blocks.
- Create a variable and be able to use a variable to record a score.
- Understand what a variable is and how it works within a program.
Suggested prior learning
Archived unit: Programming: Scratch
If your school does not have access to Google, there is also a Microsoft version of this unit.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Scratch reminder
Lesson 2: Identifying what code does
Lesson 3: Introduction to variables
Lesson 4: Making a variable
Lesson 5: Times tables project
Key skills
- Using decomposition to solve
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Key knowledge
- To understand that a
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Key vocabulary
Broadcast block
Code blocks
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Unit resources
Assessment Computing Y4: Further coding with Scratch
Assessment Computing Y4: Further coding with Scratch Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Knowledge organiser Aimed at pupils, a single page
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Subject resources
Computing: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Computing
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Curriculum planning
Knowledge and skills progression
Curriculum planning 
Knowledge and skills progression Progression document showing how skills and
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Curriculum planning
Knowledge and skills progression
Outlining the key skills and knowledge
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Key vocabulary
Key vocabulary Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Assessment
Assessment Spreadsheet for Kapow Primary's Computing scheme
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Computing: Equipment & resource lists
A list of the resources, hardware
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Maths: 2-D grids, coordinates and translations. Multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 tables.
English: Spoken Language – speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
Suggested next steps
Programming music – Option 2: Scratch (tablet and Chromebook users)
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