We have a very dedicated team of Computing Cadets at Beechwood Primary School. The children applied to join the team and had to say why they wanted to help others with computing.
There is a program that our computing cadets follow which is based on the four bees from our logo.
Some children will earn their first badge this term.
Outline of the Program
1. Be Happy – The children are to help create a happy mindset about e-safety and computing.
Part of the activities for this section of the course will be:
- Creating computing posters about a computing area of their choice.
- Beginning a school blog together for the school website with ideas about how to be happy with your online and computing usage.
- Creating and collecting information about computing use in a survey with children.
2. Be respectful- The children will be thinking and showing the school information on cyber bullying. They will research it and have cyberbullying lessons with the computing leaders. They will then need to create, prepare and deliver an assembly to the different year groups about cyberbullying with where they can go for help. They will need to continue to add content to the school blog incorporating ideas about being respectful online.
3. Be hardworking- The children will be learning and spreading the message about being hardworking and using the internet and computers appropriately. They will learn about the amount of time that people spend online and then conduct their own research about the amount of time that our school children spend on line. They will continue to add content to the school Blog about this topic and add in any other useful information. To help raise money for buying e-safety books or to pay for a visitor, children will help with fundraising.
4. Be aspirational- Children will be trying to achieve their end goal of helping all children and families be safe online. To achieve this goal, they will work together to create leaflets of information for KS1 and KS2 using other leaflets as inspiration. They will also create a Computing Cadets newspaper for each of the classrooms to have in their reading corner to share all they have learned. They will finish the program by adding content to the Blog and being Mentors to the next groups of Computing Cadets. During a Golden time with the support of the ICT team, they will run a short Robotics club for different year groups to inspire children to work with computing.
Computing Cadet Blog
