Wimborne First School & Nursery

Computing Curriculum

Intent

Computing at Wimborne First School intends to provide a broad range of knowledge and skills across different concepts within an ever-changing digital world. Technology is a part of our everyday lives; therefore, we aim to provide our children will the essential skills and understanding to prepare them successfully and for them to apply these within the extensive technological world that we live in. We want our learners to be confident in their use of technology and know the procedures to follow to adapt and to be competent within the Computing Curriculum.

Due to the ever-changing Digital world, the frequency and integral use of technology, it is vital that we educate our children on how to use technology in a positive, respectful, responsible and safe way. We embed the safe use of technology and being online in all that we do, throughout all of the curriculum and make links to this, discussing them in depth during our Computing curriculum time.  

Implementation 

Our Computing Curriculum follows the Department for Education funded scheme of work by Teach Computing.

The key elements that will be covered and focused on during each Key Stage and Year group are: Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy. These will enable the children to know how computers and computer systems work, how to design, build and analyse programs and how to find and manage digital information securely. 

This Computing Curriculum will cover the primary themes of Computer systems and networks, programming, algorithms, data information, creating media and the safe use of being online. All of these elements enable the children to be skillful computer scientists. Alongside this, we endeavour to embed computing across the whole curriculum to ensure that skills and knowledge learnt are transferrable and can be applied in different contexts, meaning our children can be as fluent as possible in their use of each strand. 

Please see progression information: 

Please see our Learning Journeys for each unit

Impact

After each lesson and concept is taught, teachers will make ongoing assessments against the learning objectives to make judgements of where the children are working at. At the end of each unit, assessment quizzes and teacher judgements will be made based on whether a child has met, exceeded or are working towards the objectives set. This information will be provided to the subject leader and the curriculum leader so that an analysis can be made for tracking and monitoring achievement and progress, resulting in the impact that this has had.

Evidence of progression and achievement will be seen in examples of children’s’ work which will be stored in their Computing books or their online documents.

As a result of effective implementation, the children will be able to apply their skills and knowledge in other areas of learning. The children will be able to share their knowledge of how to be a responsible user of technology through discussion when questioned. They will be prepared for the next stage in their lives, knowing how to be a responsible user of technology in the wider world and most importantly, know where to seek support. The children will be familiar with and will discuss their understanding of the three main strands and will know key vocabulary associated with these. The confidence within each unit and concept will increase and mean that the children can be more independent and experienced when problem solving and logical thinking within Computing Science and within the wider world, using this application in real life contexts.

Please see examples of our end of unit Quiz: