Computing

Click to download:Computing National Curriculum | Computing curriculum statement 

Computing is an ever-changing part of our day to day lives, which also comes with increasing risk. At Willoughby Primary School, we aim to equip the children to enter this environment by enabling them to find, explore, analyse, present and exchange information in digital form.

• We want our pupils to be fluent with a range of tools to best express their understanding and hope by upper Key Stage 2, children have the independence and confidence to choose the best tool to fulfil the task and challenge set by teachers.
• We want our pupils to be creators not consumers and our broad curriculum encompassing computer science, information technology and digital literacy reflects this.
• We want our pupils to understand that there is always a choice with using technology and as a school we utilise technology to model positive use.

Through both our PSHE and computing curriculum, we promote the importance of online safety and staying safe using technology. Online safety is taught throughout our computing curriculum and links to our PSHCE sessions and our collective worship.

We hope to enable our children to have the right to enjoy childhood online and be safe on online spaces that are appropriate to their age. As they grow older, this will support them with making a positive contribution online and have an awareness of both their and other people’s presence online.

At Willoughby Primary School, we follow the National Curriculum for computing. We use the NCCE Teach Computing scheme from Year 1 to Year 6. These units have been carefully planned into our two year cycle to ensure progression through school.

Our computing curriculum is arranged according to four key strands:

• Creating Media
• Data and Information
• Programming
• Computer systems and Networks

We continually invest in our computing resources and keep them updated. These are maintained by staff and technicians.