Remote Control
This computing scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select and record sequences of instructions that can be used to control and move a programmable toy around different routes. The class can describe some of the shapes and symbols used on different buttons to match their specific functions.
Select and record sequences of instructions that can be used to control and move a programmable toy along and around different routes
Lesson One : On and Off
Investigate different control methods that can be utilised when playing with and operating different battery powered toys
Lesson Two : Journey Maze
Select and record sets of instructions that can be used to complete the movement of a toy robot through a maze
Lesson Three : Button Controls
Identify and record different outputs that can result when buttons are pressed on a programmable toy
Lesson Four : Button Sequences
Identify and record movements that can be made by a programmable toy following sequences of actions
Lesson Five : Toy Journeys
Select and devise a sequence of instructions to command a programmable toy around a route
Lesson Six : Toy Mazes
Select and record sequences of instructions to move a programmable toy around a maze
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Family Homes
Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing
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Family Rooms
Select sentences to complete speech bubbles to record what different characters might say in response to some of the different events that happened in a story with a familiar setting
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Food Labels
Select descriptive vocabulary words that can be added to labels describing some of the different types of foods that could be eaten by a family for breakfast, lunch and dinner
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Family Sentences
Select and model how to add a range of cvc words to complete different sentences about some of the special things that might happen in a family home as part of a narrative story