Today Laura & Richard from University of South Wales (Technocamps) came to our school and put on workshops for the year 9 students who wanted an insight into computing. There was one workshop in the ICT suite where we used scratch and KODU.  The scratch workshop allowed us to make a space invaders game and in KODU we explored its features and learnt some of the basics using the Xbox controllers - this was great fun! 

There was a second workshop based on the programming language, Python. First we learnt the basic commands and then we were given the chance to make either a basic game or a conversion programme. We enjoyed the tasks given to us in the workshops and we now have a good idea of what computing is and how it can be used. We thank technocamps for coming to our school and giving us the opportunity to experience basic computing.

Written by Tom, Joel & Ieuan - Year 9.