COMPUTING
Aims
- To teach children within a culture of high expectation and challenge enabling the child to achieve their best
- To teach them to be good choosers, skilful problem solvers and powerful learners
- To give them the confidence to question and to search for answers
- To understand that without mistakes we don’t learn and so encourage them to take risks
- To build the skills, knowledge and understanding required for making sense of the world around them
- To learn to work collaboratively as well as independently
- To be caring and respectful of those around them
- To help them to recognise that learning is lifelong
- But most importantly to enjoy learning
Providing a broad and balanced curriculum for our children to follow informed by the National Curriculum (2014). The subjects taught aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum of academic, cultural and physical pursuits.
What does the Computing Curriculum look like?
The National Curriculum for Computing aims to ensure that all pupils:
can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
At Newton Leys Primary School and Nursery, we achieve this through using the NCCE Computing scheme as a foundation.
Progression document Computing.pdf