Month: September 2024

A wonderful evening last night where we welcomed the parents of S1 and P7 to the school.

The faculty were able to explain what the pupils will be doing in S1 & S2 when they come to Taylor HS.

We set up many exciting tasks eg Showcasing pupils coding skills by allowing pupils, (and parents), to play the games the pupils have created. Cyber Security games helping to teach the importance of on-line safety. We also had the Spheros out to add an extra dimension to the evening.

We were having so much fun we forgot to take phots while the pupils and parents were in!!

 

2 ex-pupils who now work in JP Morgan, Kieran & Allan,  kindly visited the higher computing students to explain the process of creating software for a global finance company. Their experience in the workplace was shared using real life examples of how the theory taught in the class is used in the company. An active fun element was added by using Lego to represent code and models built to represent applications. The process of getting the models built showed the pupils the difficulties coders have when trying to extract requirements specifications from clients in the real world.  This was an inspiring event as Kieran and Allan spoke of how they have travelled the world with the company and they too once sat in the very same classroom as todays pupils.