Event Tag: digiwin25


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Digital Winter Week 2025 Welcome to Digital Winter Week! These sessions are designed to be “device agnostic” wherever possible. Whether your pupils are on iPads, Chromebooks, or Windows Laptops, they will be able to take part using the tools available to them. Sessions include live chat interaction and reactions via MS Teams. Further Details can be found on …


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Target: First & Second Level (P3 – P7) Skill: Beginner Session Synopsis: Pupils will explore the basics of graphic design with Adobe Express—combining shapes, icons, and text—to create a digital “Winter Expert” badge or logo. We will discuss colour palettes and contrast. Tool Options: All devices: Adobe Express Register Here


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Target: Second & Third Level (P6 – S3) Skill: Intermediate Session Synopsis: We will bring a still image to life! Pupils will create a winter scene inside a circle (snow globe) and use animation paths or motion effects to make it snow, move characters, or shake the globe. Tool Options: All devices: Scratch (web) Register Here


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Target: P6 – S3 Skill: Intermediate Pupils won’t code the app, but they will design the interface. What does Santa’s GPS look like? Does he have a ‘Naughty/Nice’ toggle? We will prototype the UI. Tools: Keynote / PowerPoint / Google Slides Register Here


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Target: P5 – S3 Skill: Intermediate Combine creativity with Generative AI. Generate a unique background, create festive text effects, and animate a character reading a verse from the poem. Tools: Adobe Express Register Here


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Target: P4 – S1 Skill: Beginner/Intermediate Turning spreadsheets into art! Use the grid and ‘Conditional Formatting’ or simple ‘Fill Color’ tools to create 8-bit style festive art. Tools: Numbers / Excel / Google Sheets Register Here


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Target: P6 – S3 Skill: Intermediate / Advanced Pupils will build a functional game where a character moves left/right to catch items falling from the top of the screen. Tools: Scracth Register Here


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Target: P5 – S2 Skill: Intermediate Session Synopsis: Moving beyond linear presentations. Pupils will create a scene with 24 (or fewer for time) doors. Clicking a door jumps the user to a specific slide revealing a joke, fact, or picture. Tool Options: iPad: Keynote. Chromebook/Laptop: Google Slides, PowerPoint. Register Here


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Target: P5 – S2 Skill: Intermediate (Multimedia & Layout) Extra! Extra! Inspired by the magical newspapers in Harry Potter, pupils will create a digital newsletter where the images come to life. Using Adobe Express, they will design a vintage layout and embed a video report (e.g., a weather report or reindeer sighting) to create a “moving picture” …

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