This term our Year K-2 students have been learning to use the program Scratch Junior as part of the Digital Technologies curriculum. Using this program has allowed the students to create their own games and animations. Explicit instruction has helped Year K-2 learn the features of this program, allowing them to make mistakes and trial new skills has helped them grow and learn.
Designing interactive games have helped the students work collaboratively with their peers and think creatively. “We love Scratch because we can be creative and work with our friends” Oceane Cruikshank & Cian Halligan
Recently they were presented with a game and had to backwards map, figuring out the code and being able to draw it using the code. Students then got the opportunity to create the game.
“Scratch Juniors is really fun, we get to make games which we can play after we learn to code them. I like how we code different sprites. Sprites are different characters we use. “ Kiara Hannarford”
“Scratch is really fun, we love making characters and coding them to do funny things.” Parker Wright & Innekah Cole
Written by Philippa Roth
We are really thankful for everyone who contributed to this project and because of you we have made more than enough money we needed to sponsor our kids. This is something that Bishop Druitt College has been doing for twenty years now. Thank you everyone for making this possible as this is something that is very important to the school. Over $1000 was raised from the exciting and fun Cupcake Day in Term 2. The additional funds came from the printing of EYE Shirts.
World Vision supports under privileged people around the world. We currently sponsor five children. Here’s a quick overview of their profiles:
Netariro Diverlis - is seven years old and lives in Zimbabwe she has one brother and loves playing games at school.
Namleav - lives in Cambodia, is nine years old and has a brother and two sisters. He is in year three and loves to play football.
Naw Khine - has a brother and sister and her favourite subject at school is maths. She lives in Myanmar and speaks Karen.
Leakna - also lives in Cambodia and is in year seven her favourite subject at school is maths.
Abigirl - she is our eldest sponsor child. At 16 years of age, and living in Zambia, Abigirl has four brothers and a sister and loves Science at school.
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