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Mellor Community Primary School

Digital Leaders

Meet the Team

We are the Mellor Digital Leaders!

We are a team of 11 enthusiastic and proactive KS2 pupils, who are keen to assist with technology and also promote and drive e-Safety at Mellor.

The team consists of year 5 and 6 pupils who completed an application form, practical test and a short interview to become a Digital Leader, new Digital Leaders are recruited in the summer term.

The team meet once a week and have taken part in a range of projects that you see in the Projects section below. Our role involves assisting staff and pupils with setting up equipment and with general IT issues.

Digital Leaders 24-25 (ID 2317)

Report to Governors

2024/25

 

Autumn Term 23/24

During this term, we have been working on delivering a Micro:Bits assembly for Key Stage 2. We wanted to share with the children and staff the advantages of coding and how to program the Micro:Bit. We delivered the assembly to the different phases, using a visualizer to show the year groups how to use the device. Many of the children understood how to use Micro:Bits, and they all enjoyed the assembly. We even decided to invite Nik to attend the assembly using a QR code as a special invitation. We had a great time networking with Catherine Junior School’s Digital Leaders to share our skills using Micro:Bits and to connect with other children. The children at Catherine worked hard and were able to create different programs following step by step instructions. We are looking forward to recruiting the next set of Digital Leaders over the next few weeks.

Spring Term 23/24

We are still continuing with our weekly meetings with our IT manager. This term we have been practising and rehearsing for the Safer Internet Day assemblies as Safer Internet Day was Tuesday 6th February. We shared information to the whole school during their phase assemblies. The theme this year was ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’.

We are now using Micro:Bits with the aim of delivering assemblies to KS2 on what they are and how they can be used.

Autumn Term 23/24

Towards the end of the Summer term, we had the chance to recruit the next set of Digital Leaders. We were able to assess their computing skills with a short task and also asked questions on how they would support their peers across the school. From this, we now have 9 Digital Leaders who are committed and regularly attend weekly meetings! One of our key priorities is to work with our ICT manager in developing our knowledge of using Micro:Bits. We are now practising using the robot kits so we can share it with teachers and children in our phase assemblies.

As we have subscribed to the Now Press Play headphones, we recently had training through Zoom with the company to support us in becoming a ‘Spark’. This means we are now trained to set up the wireless headphones for teachers, check the equipment and provide technical support when necessary

 

Projects

BBC Live Lesson - Gladiators

The Digital Leaders took part the Gladiators Live Lesson, they completed the tasks in the lessons and then got to work on designing a fitness gadget using the Micro:bits, their entries were entered into the Gladiators competition. 

 

Online Resources - Parent Drop In Session

 The Digital Leaders helped with setting up an online resources session for parents and offered support and guidance with how to login and use the resources. 

Safer Internet Day

Mellor Digital Leaders presented Safer Internet Day assemblies to all year groups. The theme this year was 'Too good to be true'.

 

 

BBC Micro:Bits Drop in Session

The Digital Leaders used their expertise to run a teacher CPD session on how to use Micro: Bits in the classroom. The digital leaders were able to provide clear step by step instructions. This drop in was well received and staff!

 

 

Young Coders Competition

This term the DL have continued work on their entries for the Young Coders competition on producing their own games using Scratch. The DLs divided into two teams to create a multiple choice e-Safety quiz for EYFS/KS1 and KS2, in their groups the pupils put together a list of multiple choice questions aimed at the key stage the quiz is for. Using Scratch the DLs have been working in their teams to compile code for the quiz and also using their debugging skills whenever their code isn’t quite working as expected, the pupils are on course to complete and submit their games before the deadline at the end of this term.

You can play the quizzes the Digital Leader created below:

EYFS & KS1: Team Aesthetics

KS2: Team Scratchers

Soar Valley College Visit

The Digital Leaders visited Soar Valley and met with the Computing teacher Nina who held an introduction to micro bit lesson. Using the Make Code website the DLs used block programming code to light up the display of the micro bit using a design of their choice. The DLs learnt how to use variables, if/and/or and repeat commands to program the micro bit so that it displays a new pattern if the A, B or A & B buttons are pressed. DLs also learnt how to connect the micro bit to a PC and how to transfer code they have complied to the micro bit. Nina also took time to explain to the DLs the Computing activities secondary pupils do such as Python and C++ coding language.

 

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