Background

Started with free play, allowing Bee Bots to travel under the bridges and visit different places in town

Mathematics – linked to money and programming
Pupils had been learning about money to 10p so pupils then were asked to write a simple programme to make a total of 10p

How ICT supported learning and teaching

Extended mathematics for more able pupils. Challenging group to write the programme to allow the Bee Bot to Make 10p

Impact / conclusion

Pupils were extremely motivated and engaged and used good mathematical language to solve the problems.

Fantastic resource to use in many different curricular areas next steps would be to link to novel study – visit the characters and places in the book. Then set pupils a challenge to design own grid map and give to another group with a problem to solve.

We have bought some with Tesco vouchers for schools and hoping to purchase a few more and timetable for classes to use.

Yvonne Gibb