Year 1: Bee Bots

This week the Year 1 children have been playing with the Bee Bots. I asked a few children if they could tell me what a Bee Bot does and here are some of the answers I was given ...

"They are really clever because they remember everything you told them to do"

"Sometimes they go all wrong and keep going when you want them to stop."

"Bee bots are robots. You use the arrows to move them."

The year 1 children clearly know what a Bee Bot is and how to move it. This week we focused on programming in more than one step to get the Bee Bots to in move more than one direction in one go. They really enjoyed the challenge of the race track mat and preventing the Bee Bots from going over the barriers. We also programmed the Bee Bots to spell our names on the alphabet mat which was a bit unfair on the children with long names!!!! 

Sequencing Instructions

Today the reception children used the Bee Bots. They learnt how to move them forwards on the mats by counting the number of squares to get to pictures or letters. They really enjoyed themselves. 

Sequencing Instructions: Drawing Mars Rovers on the iPads

The year 5 children have been using the iPads to draw Mars Rovers to navigate the Mars terrain! They have been using the app Hopscotch to programme objects to draw. Very impressive work year 5!

Take a look at some of the fantastic results ... 

Sequencing Instructions: The Bee Bots visit Habitats

The Year 4 children have taken the Bee Bots on a journey this week to visit lots of different habitats!

Using the Habitats that they made in their Habitats and Homes IPC topic, the children programming the Bee Bots to visit one habitat, then the next, using the roads provided. They really had to think about their programming skills to stop the Bee Bots from leaving the road or CRASHING into the habitats!

Sequencing Instructions: Reception learn to programme Bee Bots

The Ladybirds have been learning some programming skills to move Pirate BeeBots around Maps to find the Treasure! They have also been developing their programming skills using The BeeBot app on the iPads.

Sequencing Instructions: Year 3 take the Bee Bots for a trip around the Rainforest!

The year 3's have been busy with their programming skills. They practiced these skills on the iPads and then programmed the Bee Bots to visit different rainforest animals around the jungle.

They are getting extremely good at working out a detailed set of instructions before pressing the go button.

Sequencing Instructions: Year 2's use the Bee Bots

The Year 2 classes have been using the Bee Bots this week.

We programmed the Bee Bots to move from one sense to the next, thinking really hard about the steps involved in the programming and inputting these instructions into the Bee Bots before pressing the Go button.

We used the Bee Bot app on the iPads to remind ourselves how to programme the Bee Bots whilst we waited to have our turn on the real thing!

Sequencing Instructions: Year 1 use the Bee Bots during their IPC topic Flowers and Insects

Sequencing Instructions: Our NXT robot

Sequencing Instructions: Robotics and Lego after school club

Have a look at some of the wonderful things our students are learning at the after school club.
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