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

  • Family Homes

    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

  • Family Rooms

    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

  • Food Labels

    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

  • Family Sentences

    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