Computing

Our classrooms are well stocked with devices for children to use to develop their computing skills, along with using them to enhance their learning. As a Microsoft Showcase School, we ensure that all children have their own Office 365 account from Year 1 to Year 6. Children are taught to use the software within Office 365 to enhance their learning at school and at home. Homework is completed online using the Office 365 Class Teams page. In Reception Tapestry is used to track learning and homework is set to be completed within Tapestry.

Our computing curriculum equips children to use computational thinking and fosters children to be competent, confident and creative users of technology and responsible digital citizens.  Children will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be able to express themselves and their ideas clearly through digital media. It will enable them to see how these skills will be useful to them as active participants in both a digital world as well as in the workplace. They may be inspired to pursue further study and career paths in Programming, Engineering and Computer Science. Through the computing curriculum, children will understand and apply core principles and concepts of computer science:  including logic, algorithms and data representation. They will evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies analytically to solve problems. Our computing curriculum is based on the Teach Computing Curriculum supported by Office 365. Children will engage in alternate terms of computing teaching, followed by shorter embedding terms in which computing knowledge and skills are applied to other subject areas.