In her Computing lead role, Mrs Holdsworth recently tasked the Y4s with a coding challenge! She provided us with 30 Microbits and set us on a mission to get to know how they work and how to code some very (VERY) cool effects onto them. Miss Heath and Miss Hanafin were a little nervous at first as these little devices looked very new, very tricky and very complicated. Time to show our value of resilience, we thought. But as soon as we had a play around and started learning some tricks, we absolutely fell in love with this new Computing topic and got started right away.

The Year 4 children have already been able to pair their Microbits, create flashing patterns, show words, smiley faces, messages and use them to play 'yes' 'no' game. Pine Class even got onto adding Music! The excitement in the room was wonderful and everyone had a real wow moment as we saw our coding come to life. We will be carrying on using the Microbits throughout the year and as the first year group in the school to explore them, we give a 10/10 review!

If you are interested in finding out more about these devices or want to have a go at home, please visit:

https://microbit.org/teach/featured/

https://makecode.microbit.org/

Microbits are funded by the BBC so there are some great links to familiar shows (like Gladiators!) out there.