Online Safety Talk - Cumbria Constabulary 

Our local PCSO, Pete, spoke to all our classes about online safety.

He spoke to our KS2 classes about the dangers of speaking to people online. He gave the example of a person who superimposed a photograph of a teen on to images in order to fool a teenager to meet them. When the teen went to meet this person they were faced with a 50 year old man, as opposed to their teenage friend who they thought they were meeting.

He highlighted the fact that they were unlikely to speak to people they do not know outside, so why would it be ok to speak to people they don’t know online.

We also spoke about age limits and that these are to help protect people from being exposed to something that is inappropriate or could make us worried.

The Kidsafe rules of speaking to a trusted adult were reinforced during this session.

Data Handling: Mars Rover

Derwentwater have been learning about how data is collected from the Mars Rover in space and transmitted back to Earth. We have learnt how to read and calculate binary codes, carry out binary addition and write our own simple messages in binary. 

Can you use the binary text table below to work out what Miss Standing has written?

Programming on Scratch

Our computing topic for Autumn 1 is programming, using a software called Scratch.  Today, Derwentwater spent some time tinkering on Scratch, exploring the programming software, it's capabilities and practised their coding skills.