Learning objective

  • To use loops when programming.

Success criteria

  • I can explain what a loop is.
  • I can

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be able to:

  • Use

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1: Lesson plan

An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could be given the code on the link: Trinket - Repeated circle design program and encouraged to experiment with it, changing the numbers to see what they can create; could use Scratch to build repeating patterns if they struggle managing written code using the link: Scratch - Islamic code.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should be encouraged to use embedded loops to create each of their rows.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: using loops in Python and explaining

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Vocabulary definitions

  • design

    A decorative pattern.

  • indentation

    Used in programming (e.g. Python) to define a block of code.

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