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Report: Computing in Special Educational Needs Settings

Using a makey makey with Scratch to provide accessible controls

  The eLearning Service has always worked with a number of special schools in the city and beyond looking at how technology can support learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). When the Computing curriculum was announced, we began to work with these schools to look at how the…

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celliott 5th September 2018 11th September 2018SEN computing, research

Launching our 2017 Sheffield Primary Computing Scheme of Work

We are proud to announce that the 2017 version of the Sheffield Primary Computing Scheme of Work will be launched at a mini Computing conference on the 24th May 2017. This conference will start at 2pm and finish at 5.30pm, with an option for a 4pm start for attendees undable…

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celliott 24th April 2017 29th November 2017Primary computing

Tips on Supporting SEND Pupils in Secondary Computing

This post was originally published in the Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools group on the National STEM Centre website: Technology is a great enabler, and can support students with special educational needs and disabilities to access learning and create meaningful content. The programming elements of the computing curriculum can, however, be…

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celliott 27th May 2016 29th November 2017Secondary, SEN computing

SEND Computing Conference 2015 – Part 2

The SEND Computing Conference took place onthe 30th November and 1st December at the National STEM Learning Centre in York. You can read about the Monday evening session on assessment and Ian Bean’s keynote in Part 1 of the blog here. Workshops: 1. Scratch and the Kinect Matthew Parry, a…

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celliott 16th December 2015 29th November 2017Primary, SEN computing, sen computing

SEND Computing Conference 2015 – Part 1

After talking to a number of colleagues in special schools and on Twitter, I decided to organise an SEND Computing Conference to help share ways of adapting the curriculum for learners with special educational needs and disabilities. We held it at the National STEM Centre in York, which is a…

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celliott 7th December 2015 29th November 2017SEN computing

BBC micro:bits – a computer for every year 7

This week I spent a day at the wonderful National Science Learning Centre in York learning about the BBC micro:bit on a Computing at School roadshow. The micro:bit is a very simple computer that is being sent out to schools this year for every year 7 pupil to enable them…

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celliott 30th September 2015 29th November 2017Secondary computing

SEN Computing Day (Feb 2014) – Report Part 2

This is the second post about the SEN Computing Day held at the Sheffield South City Learning Centre on the 6th February – it is posted again here due to a change in website. You can read part 1 here. Afternoon session – looking at the KS2 Computer Science elements…

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celliott 12th June 2015 29th November 2017SEN computing

SEN Computing Day (Feb 2014) – Report Part 1

This post has been copied over from the old website, and refers to a conference held in February 2014 Last Thursday 16 teachers from special schools in Sheffield, Derbyshire and Doncaster descended upon the CLC to look at the new Computing Curriculum and how the computer science elements can be taught to…

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celliott 12th June 2015 12th June 2015SEN computing

SEN Computing Assessment Framework

The Computing curriculum has changed what is taught in schools, of all types and phases, but the means of assessment for those who have not yet reached National curriculum levels,  the P Scales, have not been altered. There is a fundamental mismatch between the curriculum and the means of recognising…

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celliott 8th June 2015 8th June 2015SEN assessment, computing

KS3 Computing Wikibook

I attended a Hack the Curriculum event last week in London with a number of teachers and digital industry professionals to start work on a Wikibook for KS3 Computing. It was organised by #include – a working group of Computing at School who are working to make Computing accessible for…

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celliott 27th April 2015 30th April 2015Secondary computing
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