During British Science Week 2024, Year 5 took ‘time’ to a whole new level! We became time travellers! Using Scratch, we created our own time machine and coded it to travel back in time to prehistoric times and to a future far, far away!

First we created our ‘time machine’. We inputted the code that would make it travel. What we were really doing, was programming the background to change. We inputted code to make the time machine flash to make it look like it was moving through time.

Miss Allen, a Doctor Who fan, decided to make her time machine the real thing! Once we had programmed the time machine to move and the background to change, we added in sound effects.

We then tested our programming skills and travelled through space and time. If only real time travel was as straight forward!