Throughout both of my placements in school, I have been lucky enough to see lots of computing in action.

I have been able to see coding programs like scratch in action and have worked on building my understanding of how to teach and use the program for myself.

For the most part, I found Scratch quite straight forward and easy to pick up. It was great at clearly highlighting what each command would do, and it was pretty easy to get my desired results from it. My class certainly agreed and were able to design their own animations with ease, discussing what each command would do and what would happen if they changed the numbers or altered a command.

I have also seen lots of computing used as a cross curricular aid for other subjects. Creating leaflets on purple mash, book reviews on espresso or just research for a particular topic have all been great instances of how computing can help boost another subject.

For the research in particular, I have seen lots that I will use going forward. For instance, in one lesson QR codes were created and stuck on to the tables. This codes were linked to different websites that the class could use for research on their topic. When scanned by the pupils it took them straight to the website, without them needing to type in a long or complicated URL, which was especially handy for the year 2 class.

These are certainly things I will take with me as I continue my exploration of the subject and I hope to learn more in the future