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The external Trinket platform used for some activities in this unit is no longer available. As a result, some activities can no longer be completed as intended. The new unit Computing, Year 6, Programming: Exploring Python is available now and does not rely on Trinket.
This unit will move to our Content archive in April 2026. It will remain permanently available but will not be updated in line with curriculum or website developments.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Iterate ideas, testing and changing throughout the lesson and explain what their program does.
- Use nested loops in their designs, explaining why they need two repeats.
- Alter the house drawing using Python commands; use comments to show a level of understanding around what their code does.
- Use loops in Python and explain what the parts of a loop do.
- Recognise that computers can choose random numbers; decompose the program into an algorithm and modify a program to personalise it.
Suggested prior learning
Programming 2: BBC micro:bit
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Tinkering with Logo
Lesson 2: Nested loops
Lesson 3: Using Python
Lesson 4: Using loops in Python
Lesson 5: Coding Mondrian
Key skills
- Decomposing a program into
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Key knowledge
- To know that there
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Key vocabulary
algorithm
code
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Turtle Academy ×1
- Trinket ×1
- Scratch (website) ×1
- Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Computing Y6: Intro to Python
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Intro to Python".
Vocabulary display – Computing Y6: Intro to Python
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Intro to Python unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Maths – compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes. Describe positions on the full coordinate grid.
Art – improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture and know about great artists, architects and designers in history
Suggested next steps
Skills showcase: Inventing a product
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Examples of completed work by Salisbury Road Primary
