Computing trip to Legoland
100 Year 8 students went to Legoland yesterday as part of a computing trip. The students all attended a Lego Spike workshop where they built, coded, and debugged their own robots using LEGOLAND’s very own SPIKE™ Prime robotics sets! During the workshop some students managed to make their robots navigate across the LEGOLAND map, turning and […]
Computing clubs
The computing department runs a variety of popular clubs throughout the week. Minecraft Minecraft club takes place on a Tuesday, and continues to be the most popular club in year 7. Mrs Carter has kept the students busy all year with various build challenges and in the next few weeks the year 7s will also […]
Computing curriculum spotlight
Year 7 Year 7 are currently working on programming their own 3-D gaming project called Kodu. They have been given a design brief, which they follow in their lessons, and are developing their game with multiple levels and increasing difficulty. “Kodu is really creative. I have made a bridge to connect two islands, and mountains […]
Durrington High School awarded the Core Values Trophy at the Sussex Lego League Regional Tournament
The computing department at Durrington High School took their first team to the Lego League Regional Tournament for Sussex Area held at Gatwick Airport. The First Lego League Challenge is a global competition for young people aged 9 to 16, run in the UK by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Durrington High were the […]
TeenTech Sussex Festival 2023
The Computer Science department took 24 year 9 students to the TeenTech Festival 2023 at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton. Following up from their virtual event two weeks ago, this gave students the opportunity to try their hand at immersive challenges and experiments, to handle cutting edge technology and, most importantly, to spend time with […]
TeenTech Festival 2023
This virtual event was attended by over 30 Year 9 students who took part in the interactive live event hosted by Maggie Philbin. The aim of the event was to change the students’ perspectives of technology jobs and break down stereotypes as well as opening their eyes to realise that tech jobs are everywhere and […]
