At St Peter’s, computing is taught weekly to ensure children have the opportunity to embed their knowledge and skills across a range of topics. We want to equip pupils with the computational thinking and resilience to prepare them to be active participants in the digital world.

Our goal is to prepare the children for a constantly adapting technological future by ensuring they have an interest and a strong foundation for them to excel in their future.

We endeavour to make the curriculum as fun and interesting as possible with a high level of challenge by always building on previous learning. We have range of equipment available to the children to use in ICT lessons or across the wider curriculum.

The school offers a creative and collaborative environment where children understand the implications of technology for individuals and society as they become digitally literate and learn how to be safe and happy online.

Intent

Our intent is to give every child the opportunity to experience a broad and balanced computing curriculum which the children use a range of technology, programs and software confidently to develop a range of skills in digital literacy, information technology and computer science.

Implementation

At St Peter’s we use the Kapow scheme of work which allows us to use programs and software the children wouldn’t have used before. Our curriculum offers fun and engaging lessons which produces a high quality computing education.

We follow and broad and balance computing curriculum that builds on previous learning and provides both support and challenge for learners. We follow a computing scheme that ensures the progression of skills and covers all aspects of the computing curriculum.

All classes will have a scheduled computing lesson each week and will have opportunities to use technology across the wider curriculum.

We want to ensure that computing is embedded in our whole school curriculum and that opportunities for enhancing learning by using technology are always taken.

Impact

Our children enjoy and value Computing and know why they are doing things, not just how. Children will understand and appreciate the value of Computing in the context of their personal wellbeing and the technological, creative and cultural industries and their many career opportunities.

Progress in Computing is demonstrated through regularly reviewing and scrutinising children’s work, in accordance with our Computing assessment policy to ensure that progression of skills is taking place. Namely through:

• Looking at pupils’ work, especially over time as they gain skills and knowledge

• Observing how they perform in lessons

• Talking to them about what they know.

The Computing curriculum will contribute to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. This would be seen in them being able to talk confidently about their work, and sharing their work with others. Progress will be shown through outcomes and through the important record of the process leading to them.

The long-term plan can be found below.