This week we learned that making a jam sandwich may not be quite as simple as we had all presumed… The algorithms – instructional steps to create the end product –  that we wrote took a bit of editing before producing a successful sandwich and helped to explain how algorithms work in a computational sense.

The sandwich bot task was definitely something to consider for use, probably with a KS2 class, and was entertaining as well as educational.

While computational thinking and algorithms still sound scary, I feel much better about teaching around this subject and know that there is lots left to learn (and that not all of it is confusing and complicated!)