Our computing curriculum reflects the need to develop our students’ understanding through a modern and relevant education in computing. We aim to inspire creativity and computational thinking that will enable our students to become active participants in the digital world. The curriculum regularly revisits E-Safety, which reinforces the need to be responsible and respectful users who understand how to keep themselves and others safe online.

Curriculum Implementation:

Computing is taught in a one-week block each half term as a stand-alone subject for teaching computing skills discretely. This allows them to build upon their previous knowledge, developing their computational vocabulary. Nevertheless, there are regular opportunities for students to apply and develop what they have learnt as a cross-curricular link in other subjects.

The school has a class sets of Chromebooks and a set of Ipads on trolleys, allowing each child to have their own device for the lesson. This hardware also supports the use of technology across other areas of the curriculum.

The school follows an adapted and personalised version of the Purple Mash Computing curriculum, with work stored within the Purple Mash files.