Junior Launch Pad

Junior Launch Pad Academy

The Junior Launch Pad Series is comprises of 6 courses studied over a two year period. Each course has 11 missions (lessons) covering one primary subject whilst providing our FunTech students time to gain the vital skill of touch typing, using the online FunTyper software. Each Launch Pad brings our youngest students to a new and exciting area of computing with courses ranging from the fundamentals of computing, to animation through to creating their own interactive game.

Year	Course	Description
ONE		The first Launch Pad of the academy explores the core components of a computer such as hardware, software, inputs and outputs. All the fundamentals are covered in this Launch Pad ensuring that children can copy, cut, and paste correctly but also explaining the importance of file organisation and folder structures. These process are key to any future use of a computer and can be transferred to any application or software used. In addition the Launch Pad allows the students to be creative when using the computers. At the end of the course they will have learnt how to create their very own Super Hero cards using the Graphics Package Microsoft PhotoDraw and the fundamental skills they have achieved. As this is the first of the Launch Pads the students also learn the fundamental skill of touch typing as part of their homework. The students will receive their own login and username for FunTyper which they will be asked to practise as part of their home missions. For more information please visit www.funtyper.com
	The second course of the series brings the internet to the forefront of the children’s minds as they discover browsers of all forms and receive their own web based email address. The children discover basic web functions and learn practical uses for all functions of email. As an added bonus the children will be able to communicate with each other as part of video conferencing. It must be noted that this course contains a strong safety element to it making sure that each child knows the dangers and knows how to maintain their safety while browsing the internet.
	This course explains the basic concepts of animation such as tweening and layers. The course then takes the children to new heights by allowing them to create their own animation. Finally their produced animation will be posted online for the whole world to see. The course introduces key skills such as layers which play a very important part in the majority of modern design programmes.
TWO		Continuing the Launch Pad series is My Tunes our sound based launch pad. From the very basic monotone to the detailed construction of a song the basics of sound manipulation are covered by this enjoyable course. The course guides the children through the whole process of sound creation from inputting sounds to the final output in the form of disc or mp3.
	Your child will become a director of their own movie from movie tracks to audio syncing this course combines elements used from all previous launch pads and provides a fitting and challenging end to the Junior Launch Pad series. The children will take part in their own movie from production to rendering and publication - at the end of the children course will have a DVD of their own.
	Game Zone, takes a child’s desire to play and constructs a creative learning environment allowing them to build their own game. The games are only as limited as their imagination as the software and teaching combine games ranging from flowerpots chasing flowers to fighter jets saving the world. The course gives the idea of how much detail and programming required to create a game by allowing the user to construct everything from textures to props and main characters.

Year

Course

Description

ONE

The first Launch Pad of the academy explores the core components of a computer such as hardware, software, inputs and outputs. All the fundamentals are covered in this Launch Pad ensuring that children can copy, cut, and paste correctly but also explaining the importance of file organisation and folder structures. These process are key to any future use of a computer and can be transferred to any application or software used.
In addition the Launch Pad allows the students to be creative when using the computers. At the end of the course they will have learnt how to create their very own Super Hero cards using the Graphics Package Microsoft PhotoDraw and the fundamental skills they have achieved.
As this is the first of the Launch Pads the students also learn the fundamental skill of touch typing as part of their homework. The students will receive their own login and username for FunTyper which they will be asked to practise as part of their home missions. For more information please visit www.funtyper.com

The second course of the series brings the internet to the forefront of the children’s minds as they discover browsers of all forms and receive their own web based email address. The children discover basic web functions and learn practical uses for all functions of email. As an added bonus the children will be able to communicate with each other as part of video conferencing.
It must be noted that this course contains a strong safety element to it making sure that each child knows the dangers and knows how to maintain their safety while browsing the internet.

This course explains the basic concepts of animation such as tweening and layers. The course then takes the children to new heights by allowing them to create their own animation. Finally their produced animation will be posted online for the whole world to see. The course introduces key skills such as layers which play a very important part in the majority of modern design programmes.

TWO

Continuing the Launch Pad series is My Tunes our sound based launch pad. From the very basic monotone to the detailed construction of a song the basics of sound manipulation are covered by this enjoyable course.
The course guides the children through the whole process of sound creation from inputting sounds to the final output in the form of disc or mp3.

Your child will become a director of their own movie from movie tracks to audio syncing this course combines elements used from all previous launch pads and provides a fitting and challenging end to the Junior Launch Pad series.
The children will take part in their own movie from production to rendering and publication - at the end of the children course will have a DVD of their own.

Game Zone, takes a child’s desire to play and constructs a creative learning environment allowing them to build their own game. The games are only as limited as their imagination as the software and teaching combine games ranging from flowerpots chasing flowers to fighter jets saving the world.
The course gives the idea of how much detail and programming required to create a game by allowing the user to construct everything from textures to props and main characters.