The school was able to highlight the vast array of technology used by pupils throughout the school on an Open Morning attended by 16 visiting Danish teachers and leaders, who were in town to visit the BETT show. The morning started with an introductory talk by Kay Potts, Computing and E-Safety Lead for Children’s Services Islington Council. The talk included sharing the school’s approach to e-safety, useful classroom resources and the National Curriculum framework.
It was then over to the Digital and Safety leaders to conduct tours around the school including lessons in Reception on Online safety delivered by pupil leaders as well as looking at how technology was used in Nursery and Reception to support lessons; coding with Beebots in Year 1; VR headset usage in a Year 2 science lesson on animals; a Year 3 poster lesson using PicCollage to write about a natural wonder of the world; a Year 4 PE lesson where pupils were using micro:bits to create timers; a Year 5 lesson where pupils were using Scratch to create maths quizzes and finally a Year 6 lesson in which pupils used Tinkercad and 3D modelling. The Digital leaders also took the visitors to the school library to hear about how the Reading Cloud, online book reviews and audio books enhance reading. The final part of the visit was a session in the hall when some of the Danish visitors shared how they use the app Code Spaces with their pupils to solve real world problems. This presentation was followed by one on using Minecraft with pupils to develop and tell stories. Both the school and the visitors learnt a lot from each other about embedding technology into education.
One of the visitors left the following feedback,
“The pupil leaders were fantastic. They conducted our tour in a very knowledgeable way. As we went around the students across the school were active and creative. Thank you for letting us visit your wonderful school with very motivated teachers and an exciting learning environment.”
