Intent

Our students are beginning their computing journey in a world where digital technology is ever-present and constantly evolving. From an early age, they are exposed to a wide range of devices and tools, and they are part of a global community that increasingly depends on technology. Our aim is to deliver an inclusive, engaging, and ambitious computing curriculum that equips all students with essential digital skills for their future. We aim to foster not only technical proficiency but also resilience and reflective thinking, empowering students to approach challenges with confidence, learn from their experiences and become creators and innovators who can make a positive impact on the world.

In order to achieve this, we will:

• Aim to ensure that all pupils have a good understanding of e-safety, ensuring they are respectful and caring members of the online community.

Because the children have ever increasing access to the online community which is continually growing and evolving. Children need to be educated on how to be a responsible e-citizen, keeping both themselves and others safe.

• Aim to develop pupils’ computational thinking and creativity skills so that they can solve problems effectively both with and without a technology.

Because these problem-solving skills, not only play a key role in the computing curriculum, but also play a part in other subjects, and everyday life.

• Aim to develop both staff and pupils’ knowledge and skills within information technology to enable them to use it successfully.

Because technology is a valuable tool that has the power to excite, engage and benefit children’s learning. It will also play an ever-increasing role in their future lives. Therefore, we must equip them with the key skills required to use technology effectively and purposely across the curriculum and beyond.

By the end of EYFS, children will:

• Understand how to stay safe by knowing when they should ask for help when using technology.
• Have the confidence to explore a variety of technology independently and with an adult.

By the end of KS1, children will:

• know how to safely, respectfully and responsibly use technology.
• use computational thinking to create a set of instructions a computer can understand (algorithm)
• use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content and know where information technology is used in the world around them.

By the end of Key Stage 2, children will:

• know how to safely, respectfully and responsibly be digital citizens.
• know what the hardware within a computer is, how they process information and how networks, such as the internet or our school network, work and are utilised for a variety of reasons.
• understand how to use computational thinking to create code for a variety of purposes (such as instructions, logic and sequences), including how to debug programs and solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
• use a range of applications and devices to create, organise, store, manipulate, retrieve and present digital content.
• know how to collect, organise and manipulate data effectively.

• know how to evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems