Computing at All Saints’ allows children to be creative and explore their world for using technology safely

Intent: our aspirations for children confident to work with technology at All Saints'!

As with all subjects taught at All Saints', our school vision and school values are at the heart of our computing curriculum.

The National Curriculum for Computing aims to ensure that all children: 

• 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.

Computing has deep links with maths, science and design technology, and provides insights into artificial systems. Computing also supports children to become digitally literate-able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology-at a level suitable for the future world. 

Implementation

Computing is taught every week at All Saints' and is timetabled as weekly slot of between 45 minutes and an hour. Our curriculum map for computing shows the progression and varied opportunities our curriculum offers. We know that developing confidence and competence in computing is about more than the weekly computing lesson. Each half term, every class has a dedicated online safety session, which ensures our children are clear about how to keep themselves safe online. This information is also regularly shared with parents as we know just how much access to online material children have outside of school. Online safety key messages are revisited in PSHE between these focus sessions. We work closely with our local policing team, who deliver twice per year online safety sessions to our children, and more frequently if we feel there is an arising need. Children in years 3, 4, 5 and 6 all now have one to one devices, meaning they are able to make use of technology to enhance and support learning across the curriculum. AT present, we have a bank of Chrome books available for the other year groups to share, but our intention is to ensure that next year we provide one to one devices for our year 2 children also. 

Impact

Pupil voice has shown that our children are finding our approach to the teaching of computing, which we began to implement in September 2023, to be having a positive impact on their view of computing, their engagement with computing and on what they know. We are excited to see how implementing a new approach to computing, impacts on outcomes going forward.