Wednesday, June 1, 2016

2 weeks to go!

Dear Colleagues,
 
We are now 2 weeks away from the first Island wide Primary coding event (fanfare!)

Here are the plans so far. Please contact me if anything is incorrect.

Schools attending Thursday 16th June.
Wroxall   St Blasius.  Honeyhill   Brighstone  Niton  Summerfield

Schools attending Friday 17th June.
Wootton  Yarmouth and Shalfleet  (Godshill Arreton Oakfield Chillerton mixed teams) Bay Primary  Broadlea?

Schedule for each morning

9.15-9.30 : arrival and refreshments.
9.30: welcome and introduction.
9.45 : circus of activities begins. Groups of 6 to rotate around a variety of coding challenges.
These will include Mr Trevor Olsen (inventor of GPIO box). Medina School pupils will be demonstrating their early work with The BBC Microbits.

11.45 Feedback and demonstrations of good work.

12.15 finish. Schools are welcome to stay and have packed lunches here. If it's nice we could all eat them on the field. 1 pm event finishes.


Hopefully this should be great fun for everyone. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any queries
Andy Fessey