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Office 365	Children in P5-P7 all have access to Office 365. You can send/recieve emails, create presentations, documents, quizzes.
Scratch Coding	Scratch is a coding programme aimed at children. It’s very simple and can be used to create anything including animations, games, stories etc. There are projects you can follow or just start from… scratch!
Hour of Code	There are many projects that children can do on here and usually they will take an hour to complete. Lots of step by step instructions with the difficulty gradually getting harder.
Interland	Interland is an online adventure provided by Google that teaches the key lessons of internet safety through four fun, challenging games. Play your way to being an Internet Legend!
Thinkuknow	Thinkuknow is the education programme from CEOP, a UK Crime Agency which protects children both online and offline. There are stories, games, activities, videos, advice and everything you need! We use lots of these in school and are suitable for all ages.
30 Day LEGO Challenge	Exactly what it says on the tin – there’s a different LEGO challenge for each day.
Swift Playgrounds	This is actually an app for the iPad which uses Apples own code. There are a series of lessons within the app.
Code Monster	This is slightly more complex coding and looks at JavaScript – probably more for the upper primary. There is a prompt at the top which guides you through the different steps and you learn how to write and change commands.
Typing Club	Develop typing skills using a very repetitive process – but very good!
BBC Dance Mat Typing	Develop typing skills using games from the Beeb.
Digital Tech Pathways (Early)	This link will take you to the planners/pathways that teachers use to support the learning of Digital Tech in school for Early Level (Nursery-P1).
Digital Tech Pathways (1st)	This link will take you to the planners/pathways that teachers use to support the learning of Digital Tech in school for First Level (P2-P4).
Digital Tech Pathways (2nd)	This link will take you to the planners/pathways that teachers use to support the learning of Digital Tech in school for Second Level (P5-P7).