To support our whole school curriculum intent in Computing, we aim to provide children with a well designed curriculum and high quality teaching and learning. At Charles Saer we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology in a socially responsible and safe way in order to flourish. We want our pupils to be able to operate in the 21st century workplace and we want them to know the career opportunities that will be open to them if they study computing.
We want children to become autonomous, independent users of computing technologies, gaining confidence and enjoyment from their activities. We want the use of technology to support learning across the entire curriculum and to ensure that our curriculum is accessible to every child. Not only do we want them to be digitally literate and competent end-users of technology but through our computer science lessons we want them to develop creativity, resilience and problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
We want our pupils to have a breadth of experience to develop their understanding of themselves as individuals within their community but also as members of a wider global community and as responsible and respectful digital citizens, which show tolerance and understanding of different cultures and lifestyles.
We want our children to have a broad vocabulary and we work hard to narrow the vocabulary gap. Computing language is taught, revisited and built upon as they progress through school.
We currently follow a scheme of work named ‘ilearn2’. This scheme supports teachers and schools with the teaching of primary computing, providing lesson outlines, video tutorials and hundreds of resources to help teach pupils a wide variety of digital skills, covering the primary computing curriculum and much more.
Our curriculum has been designed into two year cycles (Cycle A and Cycle B). These cycle will be taught alternatively. Each cycle will have a mixture of Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy. There are a mixture of units taught across the cycle, this is due to the workload on that current unit of work.