We are the Computer Science department of The Piggott School
Wargrave, UK
Joined March 2018
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Here's what Jess had to say about her achievement in the @Cipher_Master Challenge, placing 9th out of 6250 competitors in the National Cipher Challenge. Jess also has some inspirational advice for girls interested in pursuing computer science @PiggottCS
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Congratulations Jess. You're an inspirational cyberist! #cipherchallenge #girlsintech
Piggott Computing congratulates sixth-former and brilliant cyberist (one of the winners of Cyberfirst 2018) Jess for securing joint 9th position in the challenging National Cipher Challenge out of a total of 2750 participants! @PiggottCESchool
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52 Yr 10, 11, 12 & 13 students enjoyed a trip to the National Museum of Computing (@tnmoc) last week & Yr 12 student Jess said of the trip, "I thought that the 'Power of Primes' activity was amazing as it highlighted the importance that prime numbers play in cryptography..."
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Computer Science students Finlay and Oliver remarkably achieved a top 20 place after competing against 3,875 students nationwide in their age category for the Oxford University Computing Challenge. The brothers will take part in the final tomorrow. Well done on this achievement!
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Patranjali is bringing industry experience into the classroom after undertaking the PGCE Secondary Computer Science course at the IoE. Patranjali and her students have participated in competitions including winning prizes at Microsoft DigiGirlz and CyberFirst #BritishScienceWeek
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This is great... anyone can be an engineer.
MYTHS VS REALITY: ENGINEERING EDITION 👷🏿♀️🦺🏗️
Happy to share the content I created for the @theERAF for @born2engineer to bust the myths behind a career in engineering!
Full video: youtu.be/EXW655Be174
#STEMeducation #BlackHistoryMonthUK
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Are you considering The Piggott School for your child in 2021? Let us take you on a virtual tour of our school through a series of videos available online now. Below is a snapshot of one of our videos. piggott.wokingham.sch.uk/pag…. #piggottCEschool #everychildeverylessoneveryday
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Encouraging stats released today - the proportion of female students taking up tech courses continues to rise #AlevelResults #alevelresults2020 #gendergap #womeninSTEM #womeninscience
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With great pride I retweet the training story of one of our super successful female alumnae on PGCE Sec CS specialism-superb HoD,teacher, inspirational PGCE mentor @PiggottCS Pat, we love you!
To mark #IWD2019 here's a story from our former student Patranjali Bhattacharya. Patranjali now works to inspire students, especially girls to get into #computerscience.
For more info see: bit.ly/2EOHars @UniRdgsecondary @UniofReading @getintoteaching
PiggottSchoolCS retweeted
To mark #IWD2019 here's a story from our former student Patranjali Bhattacharya. Patranjali now works to inspire students, especially girls to get into #computerscience.
For more info see: bit.ly/2EOHars @UniRdgsecondary @UniofReading @getintoteaching
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Thank you to @PiggottCS This has been a great CPD Day for pre and I service teachers!
Looking forward to The Wokingham Federation CPD Day at @PiggottCESchool .The Computer Science input is brilliant &one of the highlights is our fab CS PGCE CS specialists leading a cybersecurity session using the BBC Micro:bits @microbit_edu
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Final preparations are being made for the Federation's Common Inset Day on 25 February. Some superb days have been planned and they will all be extending the knowledge and improving the pedagogical practice of all those participating. #WFCID
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The Queen meets codebreaker Ruth Bourne who worked as a Bombe operator @bletchleypark #WW2 and the current winners of #CyberFirst, @GCHQ code breaking competition for girls aged 12-13.
Together they represent two generations of women in the world of cyber security #GCHQ100
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What an amazing opportunity to go to London for the @GCHQ centenary event. To speak about the @NCSC Cyberfirst competition. The girls even got to meet The Queen @RoyalFamily . We are so proud of you all! @PiggottCS
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RT NCSC: The countdown is on! Check out our tips to ensure your competition start runs smoothly. Online round opens at midday... #GirlsComp19
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We currently have teaching vacancies for Business, Science and Physical Education at our Wargrave site. Please see our website for more details piggottschool.org/page/?titl…
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Our GCSE Presentation Evening will take place on Thursday 17th January at 6.30pm in the library. We are pleased to have Dr Stephanie Hare @hare_brain as a our guest speaker. Details are on our website piggottschool.org/page/?titl…
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#Tech fair setup in progress - countdown to pitches! #Microsoft #DigiGirlz #UK @CodeFirstGirls
@MicrosoftEDU @MicrosoftUK @CodeFirstGirls #MicrosoftEDU
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The day's #MakerChallenge is now underway with our girls using the Micro:bit. They were challenged to take an everyday item and make it #accessible and #inclusive for everyone. Stay tuned to see what they came up with.
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#DigiGirlz #MicrosoftEdu #STEM