Computing

Intent

At The Free School Norwich, our Computing curriculum develops resilient, independent thinkers and creators of the future through an ambitious, effective, and knowledge-rich education. We encourage pupils to become active, engaged, and creative thinkers in the digital world.

Implementation

Our focus is ensuring pupils receive high-quality weekly lessons that include information technology, digital literacy (including e-safety) and computer science. Through following the National Centre for Computing Education’s ‘Teach Computing’ programme, we ensure that children become familiar with a range of concepts taught progressively throughout school, with each year group building on and extending previous knowledge acquired. As a school, we also give pupils the opportunity to develop skills and apply their knowledge across the wider curriculum to ensure that pupils are receiving a range of creative outlets for computing.

Through our PSHE curriculum and our annual involvement in ‘Safer Internet Day’, we teach our pupils to become responsible digital citizens who have a strong awareness of how to stay safe online and be a positive and responsible member of the online community.

Computing Curriculum Journey

Impact

Within Computing we encourage a creative and collaborative environment in which pupils can learn to express and challenge themselves. The success of the curriculum itself will be assessed via the analysis of yearly progress data, conducting regular pupil voice sessions, lesson observations and skills audits. This will then inform future adaptations of the schemes of work and help to ensure that progression is evident throughout school.

Children will:

• Be enthusiastic in their approach towards Computing.
• Present as confident and adaptable ‘Computational Thinkers’ who are able to use identified concepts and approaches in all areas of their learning.
• Be able to identify the source of problems and work with perseverance to ‘debug’ them.
• Create and evaluate their own project work.
• Have a secure understanding of the positive applications and specific risks associated with a broad range of digital technology.
• Transition to secondary school with a keen interest in the continued learning of this subject.

Curriculum Progression

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