Computing with Kodu
LO: I can use logical reasoning to evaluate mine and others’ programs.
First, we played each other’s games and looked out for why they were successful and what we would magpie if we could.
Hifza: “The aim of our game was to try not to get killed by the cannon shooting blips and we had to get our score to twenty points. It was kind of easy because we had lots of health.”
Will: “We had a fly fish and our starting point for our rover and Kodu was at the other side. You had to get twenty apples whilst dodging the missiles from the fly fish. Ours was two player.”
Musa: “The most challenging part was making the cannon shoot the blips because at first we didn’t know what to do and it took us a long time to work it out.”
Jess: “Since our game wasn’t saved properly we had to start all over again. It was tricky but we didn’t give up and I worked with Jasraj to try and fix it.”
Harris: “Other people had different characters like a squid so I could use them as an obstacle next time.”
Leo: “Noah and I thought we might use water and hills to make it more difficult next time.”
Sami: “Even though the cannon tried to defeat us and sometimes we got destroyed, we had fun when we won at the end.”
Computing with Kodu
LO: I can use logical reasoning to improve my program.
Today, we tinkered with our games to improve their challenge and entertainment. We wanted to make fun games that were the right level of difficulty.
It was very satisfying to play our own games!
Next, we’ll play others’ games and evaluate our learning.
Computing with Kodu
LO: I can design a sequence of instructions that accomplish a goal.
Children moved towards creating their own game by programming the Kodu to eat apples to win points.
Parth: “There’s score and points and if you get an apple, you’ll score.”
Children also looked at prewritten codes and made predictions about what would happen. 
Sakina: “I think you’ll score five points per apple.”
Felix: “If you get 20 points, you will win.”
(LO: I can look at an algorithm and make a prediction.)
We also discussed how to debug algorithms that didn’t work.
Phoebe: “You need to change Kodu’s settings and show how many points you’ve got.”
We found that saying each piece of code out loud helped us figure the sequence, check for errors and make predictions.
Next time, we’ll improve our games by tinkering.
Poetry – Contrasting emotions
Written by Milo
Year 4
Living and Learning – What do you know about mental health?
On Tuesday, Year 4 were given a talk all about mental health.
What do we know about mental health?
Many thanks to Mrs Vickerman and her colleague who came into school to give this talk to the children.
All Stars cricket assembly
In our assembly yesterday, Tom, from All Stars cricket, told us all about their cricket programme running at local cricket clubs.
This video gives more information about the programme and how to find your nearest All Stars centre. New Rover, Adel and St Chad’s Broomfield cricket clubs are all running the programme locally.
All Stars cricket
Following our All Stars cricket festival last Tuesday, Tom, from All Stars cricket, came to visit us and we enjoyed a great cricket skills session.
Summer Picnic themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 06 July.
Please contact the office, by Friday 22 June, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
Out of this world art
This week, as part of our space topic, we made some space art (learning about combining visual and tactile elements) inspired by the work of Peter Thorpe. After studying his style, we practised our own designs in our sketch books. We made some mistakes (which is a good thing!) and adapted our designs to ensure they matched up to our success criteria.
Then, after some excellent modelling under the visualiser by Filip we completed our final designs using chalk, pen and pencil.
Here’s some action shots:
All Stars Cricket
Year One thoroughly enjoyed their cricket taster session from Tom from ‘All Stars Cricket’. The children were taught basic cricket skills in the short session and had great fun in the sunshine.
