We are involved in some wonderful computer coding throughout the year.
We are especially enthusiastic at being involved in the LEGO Wedo programme.
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All our five 2nd classes had a visit from some really nice people from SAP (Brendan, Nathan and Brian) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free an ...
We are becoming very good at coding now….Good enough to get a certificate! We have spent a few hours over this last EU Code Week learning the basics of coding. We love Kodables, Angry Birds, Ice ...
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More coding, this time with Minecraft. We really love coding! ...
We are celebrating EU Code Week this week by trying out some coding each day. We are inviting another class to join us at each session. We find some really good coding programmes to help us at our lev ...
Hour of Code Here’s how we got on for EU Code Week: Ms. McLoughlin’s 2nd and Ms. Cunningham’s 2nd classes played Kodable and Angry Birds. Kodable Angry Birds Ms. McLoughlin’s 2 ...
This week we’ve been learning about space. Have a look at some of our 2D shape rockets We also built some rockets using Lego, straws, blocks and magnets. ...
We are learning to code. We use Bee Bots to practise going forwards and backwards and turning left and right. We have 6 Bee Bots, 2 computers, one whiteboard, 6 mats and a maze all so we can have ...
We are back!! This year Ms. Dunne and Mrs. Greally are the Lego club teachers. Ms. Groarke is on maternity leave. This week we had lots of beginners from first class. We tried to write our names in Le ...
Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...
We love our LEGO WeDo kits and iPads! ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 15th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award and are one of the first schools in Ireland to receive the brand new Badge ...
We programmed our Wonder Dots with our iPads today. We are so fond of our Dots and we LOVE CODING! ...
It is Tech Week 2019 We used our Bee Bots at 10 different work stations. We really are experts in Bee Bots now! ...
Here’s our class at our Bee Bot work stations: and working with Wonder Dots and iPads: ...
We use the second class iPads and our Wonder dots to programme our dots to interact with us. We are just learning how to do this, but we are really enjoying it. We love coding, we love technology! ...
Junior First Lego league is nearly upon us again . This year’s theme is Mission moon and our team name is Master Moon Makers. We are very busy building a moon base with a moving part . ...
We really enjoy construction and coding with our LEGO WeDo kits and our iPads. We will try out a few tutorials and then we will design, make and programme our own creations. ...
We really enjoyed EU Code Week 2018. We tried some coding every day, and invited other classes to join us.. We even tried coding at home too. Computer programming is fun! Click on each of the pictures ...
In our school, Room 9 will take part in EU Code Week. Our aim is to run introductory workshops in coding each day in our class during the week. We hope to try Scratch, Hour of Code, Lego Robotics, Bee ...
We love Code Week. Today we got a chance to put our coding into practice, and to make and programme our own models with LEGO. We also were able to programme and interact with our wonder dots. ...
We really enjoyed the coding and were so proud when our coding worked. Why not try some coding at home? ...
Look at what you can make and do when you get good at coding! ...
We have LEGO WeDo 2 Kits at school. We can use these kits to make different models, then programme them to move using our class iPad. Today was just an introductory day. Teacher explained each step ...
We are doing a lot of coding this week for Code Week. Today we programmed Bee Bots. This is very simple coding but it is fun and it gives us a really good base for learning more difficult coding. ...
We had some really nice people from SAP (Bruno, Thais, Helinna and Cathal) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free and use on your home computers. ...
We are celebrating EU Code Week this week by trying out some coding each day. We are inviting another class to join us at each session. We find some really good coding programmes to help us at our lev ...
We used Scratch Junior on our iPads to make some very interesting stories. Scratch Junior is a free app you can use on your android or apple devices. We really enjoy coding! ...
We have new LEGO kits. Today we began using them. First we use the iPads to follow directions on how to make something. Then we use coding to programme our creation and we can interact with it. ...
We have new LEGO WeDo kits in school. Today we got our kits organised and ready to use. We are really looking forward to programming and coding with LEGO. ...
Meanwhile…the girls and non dramatic boys in Ms. McLoughlin’s class concentrated on robotics. We used programmable Lego to make our wheels spin and make noise. We are already familiar with ...
We are all able to programme the bee bots to go wherever we want them to go. We really enjoy sending the bee bots on journeys across all the different mats and mazes. [ngg_images source=”galleri ...
Our school has 6 new (technology) pupils! They are called Bee Bots and look like this: We can programme them to move around the classroom using the same commands that we use when we are doing computer ...
Look at the wonderful painting. Our class is so proud of the lovely art work! Well done! We made a really interesting construction from Lego during Golden Time today. ...
Another wonderful day of coding. Many thanks to Bruno and our super volunteers from SAP who worked with all the 2nd classes. We loved every minute of it. You have set some of us on the extremely int ...
Today we had three marvelous volunteers from SAP. They came to teach us how to use Scratch on our computers to make our own games. It was so interesting and we really had fun. We made a cat that could ...
We really enjoyed EU Code Week 2017. We tried some coding every day, and completed our Our of Code on Monday. We even tried coding at home too. Computer programming is fun! Click on each of the pictur ...
Still more coding in Room 9. We really are experts now! ...
More coding, this time with Minecraft. We really love coding! ...
Today’ coding was with Angry Birds. We are really getting the hang of coding. Why not try this at home? ...
Our coding for today was with the programme Kodable. This programme is really easy and we had a lot of fun getting our little furry guy out of the maze each time. Try it for yourself and see how far y ...
We spent an hour today at computer programming for EU Code Week. We really enjoyed the coding and were so proud when our coding worked. Why not try some coding at home? ...
Scoil Chaitriona Junior Lego Club had a great evening at the Radisson Hotel Galway . Junior First Lego League is all about taking part and working as part of a team. Ms Groarke and Ms Connolly were so ...
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