I have created this resource to take the child through adding a sprite, a stage, colour change, music loops, speech, and movement. The theme is crazy monsters, as they are in the disco, you will see the delight when they can have a highly interactive monster change colour and play music loops. There is very little text on the screen, designed for the very young, or those who have English as a second language. They just follow the circles on each slide to add to the coding. There are 36 slides, with a certificate for the basics, then extension work for faster learners. You won't be sorry you bought this idea and activity as you see their engagement and delight.

Part of the follow me range, designed for younger learners, non-readers, or EAL pupils. The learners are able to follow the circles on a slide show to code a lady dancing to a guitar. Skills built in this: adding stage adding and editing sprites changing costumes adding music changing beats to suit using a forever loop using delays There are two certificates to be gained in this very engaging lesson(s) This resource could be used by an independent learner, or by a teacher going through the slide in turn. It's real strength though is with non specialists, helping those who are unable, or unwilling to read. The lesson is very visual, and the audio also makes it engaging.

An engaging resources which allows the learners to find errors marked with hashtags. The slides include the broken code (fixed code is on the teacher slides, separate and can also be received via email). Even if you choose not to use this for debugging exercises, it is useful for programming ideas for beginners to copy. After each script the learners are encouraged to state initial tests, actual tests, in preparation for GCSE NEA work. My learners raced up the stairs to start on these tasks, very enthusiastically. The topics include maths, strings, lists, tuples, concatenation, for loops, sub routines and appending to lists. The scripts can also be used as base scripts for other ideas. At the end of the half term of work, there is a challenge project, worded like a very watered down GCSE project. Enjoy!

Year 8, ppt on Babbage and Lovelace, with LO and outcomes.

More than 70 pages of revision notes. The whole Edexcel course broken down in note form. There is a contents page for easy access too. Special offer for the exam this week!

These cover reading and writing to files. They have LOs, homework, and tasks set. There are two CSV files to be used in the lessons for reading and writing. Both lessons were graded outstanding with different staff members delivering them.

This includes learning objectives . Exercises to embed the learning. Uses real life scenarios to engage the learners and drive the message home, such as mention of Pokémon Go, and Candy Crush. Has an exam style question plenary.

Follows lessons on decomposition, and abstraction, this lesson shows how the decomposed, abstracted ideas fit back together with an algorithm. There is opportunity to practice creating algorithms in group work. Then at the end, learners are able to practice all three cornerstones of decomposing, abstracting, and creating a main and sub routines. Learning objectives, tasks, and home learning are all included.

Easy year 7 lesson where they wire up their headphones and program the Micro:bit to play Happy Birthday, or other nursery rhymes.

Whole lesson explaining how def is used in Python. Creating main procedures, and calling subroutines within them, using Rhianna lyrics. Practical task decomposing cooking a Sunday dinner. Homelearning task included. Ideal for lower ability, or younger children, to teach the basics of subroutines, procedures that don't calculate a value, or use global variables.

Another DOUBLE lesson for the Scratch DJ script. Complete with learning objectives, outcomes, plenary and homework. This presentation gives the codes and shows the learners how to make the disco lights flash. Then they can create a changing stage and create a story animation.

This is a PowerPoint (left without images) which takes the learner through what they need to know for the exam paper. The exam paper is made up entirely of questions from past papers, and only on topic 4.

This is a week's work, and cover all of the topics in Edexcel GCSE ICT. There are past papers, with mark scheme, results plus, and examiner reports, with just the questions on that particular topic. These are accompanied by a pre-test revision PowerPoint, and a whistle stop tour of the topics. Each one contains a link to a Kahoot to add some fun into the lessons. The topics are: Connectivity Digital Devices Issues Social networking Online services Operating online Everything you need for revision from now until the exam.

Learners find out how to abstract, write pseudocode, create a flowchart (algorithm) and then apply this to Python coding, using an IF, ELSE to create a quiz question. The idea is to teach the learners that solving a problem doesn't start with typing code into Python. It shows definitions and examples to introduce the concepts, and ends with a practical programming task.

Full lesson with tasks, plenary and homework. Covers all the threats that a network could face, and what a network manager should be aware of.

Introduction to using FOR loops for a range of items and a specified number of time, or for each entry in a list. Comparison with infinite WHILE TRUE loops. Ideal for lower ability, or younger children to understand the basics. Practical programming task included.

These 12 resources consist of folded revision sheets. The idea is that the question is one side, and the answer on the backside. They keep the sheet in their pocket, and fish it out regularly over the space of a few days, and focus on recalling the answers without looking (entering active learning, whereas reading, and copying are passive learning). This ensures the information moves from the short term memory into long term memory with recall. The second part of each resource is the same sheet with the answers removed. Learners fill this in during the lesson. Second bonus, instant check whether they are putting in some revision effort! I've used these for 5 years (updating each year obviously!) and have never got results less than 70% 3 levels of progress. The learners love them, and adapt the ideas to other lessons across the school. Much less wieldy than flash cards.

Learners often get mixed up with which protocol does what. This resource outlines the main protocols, and has a document attached for identifying the protocol. Great last minute activity for recall.

This resource contains LOs for 5 lessons in Python nailing IF and ELIF. It has been created as a follow on from my year 7 Python resource, but can be used as a standalone. The idea is that they recap first lesson, spend 3 lessons amending or creating code. Lesson 5 is a problem which they code a solution to. Lesson 6 is designed as feedback and DIRT time. I have the Python scripts referred to in the slides, but TES won't allow me to upload them. However, if you buy the resource, and contact me, I can ping those over to you. Although designed for year 8, this resource is suitable for bright year 7, or low ability year 9. Please check my follow on resources too. They are mainly aimed at preparing learners for the Edexcel NEA in year 11.

This PowerPoint contains 12 lessons of Python programming. It starts with the usual 'hello world', then takes the learner on a journey through importing time, adding delays, concatenation, key words/variables. It has been organised as Python scripts that the learner opens, presses F5 to see what it does, then follows the #comments in the coding. However, TES won't allow scripts to be uploaded, so I have screen dumped them on the slides. If you would like the scripts after purchasing, please contact me and I can email them. The lessons end with a taster of what is required at Edexcel GCSE level for part of the coding task, where instructions are printed, and repeated back with delays. I also have a year 8 set which focus on 2 terms learning IF, and ELIF. Year 9 focussing on FOR and WHILE loops. Year 10 on past NEA work. These will be available soon. My learners were completely engaged by having the script started for them - less daunting than opening a blank coding page in Python, and not having a clue where to start. I hope yours enjoy this resource of a term's work as much as mine did.