COMPUTING
Intent
Through our computing curriculum at Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology in a socially responsible and safe way in order to flourish.
We want our pupils to be able to operate in the 21st century workplace and we want them to know the career opportunities that will be open to them if they study computing.
Our computing curriculum contains content that has been identified as most useful to the children and that the content within it is taught in a logical progression, systematically and explicitly enough for all pupils to acquire the intended knowledge and skill.
We want children to become autonomous, independent users of computing technologies, gaining confidence and enjoyment from their activities.
We want the use of technology to support learning across the entire curriculum and to ensure that our curriculum is accessible to every child. Not only do we want them to be digitally literate and competent end-users of technology but through our computer science lessons we want them to develop creativity, resilience and problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
We want our pupils to have a breadth of experience to develop their understanding of themselves as individuals within their community but also as members of a wider global community and as responsible digital citizens.
Implementation
At Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, computing is taught in discreet computing lessons. The computing curriculum is initially delivered through the Purple Mash scheme of work and linked to the National Curriculum.
Every lesson in our scheme has been individually planned so that it can be effectively taught using the infrastructure we have in place at school and so that it can meet the needs of all our pupils. Our scheme has been closely referenced against the 2014 National Curriculum attainment targets in order to ensure progression and coverage.
Having discreet lessons means that the children are able to develop depth in their knowledge and skills over the duration of each of their computing topics. Where appropriate, meaningful links will be made between the computing curriculum and the wider curriculum.
In computing lessons the children will use either the IPads or the laptop computers in order to access a range of apps and software.
Discreet computing lessons will focus on the curriculum skills of information technology, digital literacy and computer science. Children’s progress will be assessed using the school’s tracking system, Educater.
Impact
Our Computing curriculum is planned to demonstrate progression. If children are keeping up with the curriculum, they are deemed to be making good or better progress. In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes
- Children can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation;
- Children can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems;
- Children can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems;
- Children are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
- A celebration of learning for each term which demonstrates progression across the school; § Tracking of gains in each quiz;
- Pupil discussions about their learning;