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Data packages in computing

By Miss Madden, in Year 5 - Thursday, 18 September 2025

In computing, Year 6 have been looking at communication and how messages are sent across the internet. We have learnt about IP addresses and how they are very specific to different destinations, as well as learning how data packets are broken down to make large sections of data manageable for routers. The children worked as routers themselves, collecting data packets and created images. Some messages took a bit longer than others, but we got there in the end.