The first image you are seeing is an example of what they believe the enigma code looked like. If we didn’t crack it the war would have gone on for two or three more years or we might even have lost the war!

The second image you are seeing is part of the strategy they used to crack it.

The third image is what one of the German Enigma machines looked like – they were capable of creating up to… wait for it…

158,962,555,217,826,360,000 different combinations!

(To find out how, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ)

The fourth image you are seeing is the machine that was used to crack the so called unbreakable code – this was the world’s FIRST computer and it took up the size of basically a whole room.

Some of the jobs of people employed at Bletchley Park, the British code-breakers residence, were mathematicians, scientists and – you wont believe this – but even crossword puzzle experts!!

By Blake

Because we have a Code Club, we received 8 micro bits from the BBC for FREE!

We first used them in Code Club then in P7F

You can make a lot of different things with the microbit like,

You can also make it do anything on the screen so it can come up with numbers, letters, animation and strings. A sting is a rolling word or words.

To code them you first go on to the website: www.microbit.org – then click your editor. Choose what to do if A is pressed and if B is pressed. Now press convert and drag and drop your downloaded code onto the microbit. Check the light on the back of the microbit now – it should be going crazy, that means it is processing your code. Wait for it to stop flashing. Now if you press a or b it should do what you asked it to.

Microbits are really cool and the whole class loved learning how to use them

By CallumC and Joao

At the beginning of this year we made Zentangle calendars.

Zentangle art was invented by  Maria Thomas and Rick Robert

To start off with we made 2017 and put a Zentangle in it – this is what it looks like.

A Zentangle is just a doodle. We’ve been learning about mindfulness and how Zentangle art might help us to be mindful. 

On the bottom we put our targets.

Under the flaps we put different things that the calendar asked:

TWO things we achieved last year,  something we are going to ZERO in on this year, ONE thing we hope to succeed in this year and SEVEN things we want to learn or find out about (2017!)

Have a look at some of our Zentangles below – Mr. Flett thinks they look amazing!

By Ben Mc.

Recently our teacher (Mr Flett) set us homework to find out about a certain area of WWII.

Some examples are:

Planes in WWII,

D-Day,

Adolf Hitler,

Bombs,

Italy in the war,

Argentina in the war,

Food Rationing,

And lots lots more. So after finding out the information we have to put it into a way people can find out about it, like:

An animation,

A PowerPoint,

A poster,

And loads more.

We are looking forward to seeing the presentations!!!

By CallumC

A while ago a man called Allan Patterson came to are school and showed us some things. like an incendiary bomb.

he showed us cool fragments of a P40 bomber that had crashed, a fake gas-mask, some helmets and a awesome power-point of WWII in Aberdeen. We learned a lot about Shelters which was fun and we learned about some weapons. We learned about school life and how you would feel if your house blew up. It was a FUN time and we learnt a lot

By Cameron

As promised, here are our finished spitfire drawings – we think they look amazing!