Computing

Subject Leader: Mrs Barker, Ms Cartwright

“People say ‘Aren’t you worried what students may do in the digital world?’ My response, ‘I’m more worried if we don’t teach them how.” Scott Garofola

At St Mary’s Catholic Primary School we recognise that computing is an integral part of modern day life which offers a wealth of learning opportunities, explicitly within computing and across other curriculum subjects with deep links within mathematics, science and design technology.

We recognise the importance of preparing our pupils for the modern digital world to enable them to actively participate in a rapidly changing society where work and leisure activities are increasingly transformed by technology.

It is our intention to equip our pupils to use computational thinking with creativity as an effective and transferable life skill through progressive, challenging and engaging projects.

We enable our pupils to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information within opportunities which develop a wide range of essential knowledge and skills to become confident, active, independent and digitally literate learners who can participate effectively in the digital world.

 The National Curriculum Programme of Study for Key Stages 1 & 2.

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The 3 main strands to the computing curriculum:

• Computer Science – in which children are given the opportunity to explore how applications and software are made through programming (coding) and how things actually work “under the bonnet” of our digital devices. They will develop their creativity, computational thinking and logic, to design digital solutions for the world around them. 

• Information Technology – in which children will use applications and develop their word processing skills to present their ideas. They will work creatively, linking with many of the other subjects in the wider curriculum, using a wide range of apps to create, save and retrieve data, music, art, photography, animations and their written work (plus more!).  

• Digital Literacy – in which children will become confident, creative, respectful, responsible online users. Children will develop online skills to safely explore, safely manage their own online image and their online relationships. They will also develop their understanding of the World Wide Web and the Internet it is built on. The children will also connect to many of the other curriculum subjects via their own research