February 4th saw us at St. James’ C of E Primary School. Here are some photos of the class hard at work:

Thinking hard

Thinking hard

Working with Scratch

Working with Scratch

One of the lessons we learnt from the previous session was to encourage the pupils to draw their own characters wherever possible, rather than relying on Scratch’s “clip-art”. This produced a more personal feel.

The St. James’ group also discovered the delights of the Pen command!

Here are a couple of examples of unedited projects.

NB: Most of the projects created in the workshops were interactive. Click the green flag to start. You may then have to click on sprites or press keys to trigger the action.

Robot world
Scratch Project

Flower walk
Scratch Project

This project is interesting because the pupils who created it demonstrated that they were acquiring the programmer’s “what if?” mindset (“…but what if I can make it do this? And then that?”) Whilst they couldn’t handle all the scripting themselves, the ideas they asked us to help them with grew progressively more sophisticated.

Well done everybody! :)

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