Key stage 1
Key stage 1 focused on what a tally is and how we use a tally to make it easier to collect data. They were also able to understand what is meant by the word Data, that it is another word for information, They used the tallying system to input the data into their table on the sheet.
Lower key stage 2
Lower Key stage 2 were looking at yes and no questions and how they can be used to retrieve information about a given subject. So they were asked to choose an object in their groups and they then had to answer a range of yes and no questions from the class which would allow the class to guess the object in class correctly. They did very well and were able to group objects that were separated by different things the object had in common, e.g. colour or size.
Upper Key Stage 2
Upper key stage 2 looked at attaining information by asking questions. They had to retrieve as much information as they could in their groups, so they had to figure out that the most effective way to get that information was to ask open-ended questions. That way they would be able to get a range of answers rather than only getting “yes” and “no” answers, they did really well and in the end were able to decipher the right answer. They also looked at putting information into a database.