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Year 8 Computing Event

In September, all Year 8 pupils participated in a half-day Computing event. They worked in teams of 3 or 4 and completed a range of challenges based on various computing themes. Pupils designed a flowchart which mapped out the steps to a well-known dance, played Binary bingo and solved a range of binary challenges to produce QR codes that, when scanned, revealed well-known figures from the world of Computing.

UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge

In November, all pupils in Years 7 to 9 and some from Year 10 through to Year 13 (368 pupils in total) took part in the BEBRAS challenge. The challenge is designed to introduce Computer Science and computational thinking to all students.

The competition was split into several levels depending upon year group – Junior (Years 6 and 7), Intermediate (Years 8 and 9), Senior (Years 10 and 11) and Elite (Years 12 and 13). The following pupils achieved best in school: Best in School, Junior Level: Victoria Wong Best in School, Intermediate level:Lauren Whitaker Best in School, Senior level: Anika Patel Best in School, Elite level: Evangeline Wright

A level Computing project

Maggie Zhou in Year 13 has developed a Chinese translation program for her Computing A Level project. Maggie designed her program to enable pupils to enter a news story web address. The program would then display the news story translated into Chinese and the user could choose to add some or all of these words to a translated words list, as well as to add any new words which the user does not understand. The translated words list could also be printed out to aid with revision.