Amazing Results!!!

Over the last five weeks our Year 5 and 6 students had the opportunity to participate in the NCSS Challenge demonstrating tremendous skill and perseverance to achieve outstanding results.

What is the NCSS Challenge?

The NCSS Challenge is a Programming competition open to all school students and teachers. The Grok Learning team have been running coding competitions like the challenge for over 12 years. 

Why Learn to code?

Programming (also known as coding) is how sites like Facebook and apps like Instagram are made. Knowing how to program is like having a computer superpower.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all said that students should learn how to code. It's a skill that not only teaches you how to work with computers, but also teaches you how to think about solving problems with systems.

Congratulations to Eva Francis (6B) and Tori McGrath (6B) who achieved outstanding results in multiple challenges!

Eva Francis 

• Perfect Score in the NCSS Challenge Newbies 2021 (aligned to the Year 5/6  Digital Technology Curriculum)
  
• Perfect Score in the NCSS Challenge Beginners Blockly (aligned to the Year 5/6 Digital Technology Curriculum)
• Perfect Score in the NCSS Challenge Beginners (aligned to the Year 7/8 Digital Technology Curriculum)
• High Distinction in the NCSS Challenge Intermediate (aligned to the Year 9/10 Digital Technology Curriculum)

Tori McGrath

• Perfect Score in the NCSS Challenge Newbies 2021 (aligned to the Year 5/6  Digital Technology Curriculum)
• Perfect Score in the NCSS Challenge Beginners Blockly (aligned to the Year 5/6 Digital Technology Curriculum)

Sarah Blundell
Leader of Digital Pedagogies/STEM