East Halton Computing Curriculum Intent

Our primary school curriculum is carefully designed to ensure a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all pupils. The curriculum intent aims to inspire a love for learning, foster curiosity, and equip pupils with the skills and knowledge they need to flourish academically and personally. It is rooted in a deep understanding of the local community that ensures that we ‘value our past’, celebrate diversity, promote cultural capital, prepare pupils for life in modern Britain and ‘look to the future with hope’.

Commitment to our pupils is fulfilled through our high aspiration, passion and drive and is founded upon the following four key principles:

1. Unlocking children's true academic potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’.

We aim to develop confident, resilient, inquisitive, independent & knowledgeable children through the delivery of a coherent & structured enquiry based curriculum which builds on prior learning from nursery to year 6. Individuals are challenged to reach their true potential and be ready for the next stage in their education. We want our children to believe in the transformative power of change and to ‘look to the future with hope’ in their hearts.

In Computing we do this through:

• Providing a computing curriculum that is progressive and builds upon previous learning

• Building a computing curriculum which ensures full coverage of the National Curriculum, develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable children to be confident using technology.

• Enabling children to explore the three strands of computing (computer science, digital literacy and information technology) through a variety of programs and a range of technological devices.

• Encouraging the children to be active participants in a digital world

• Enabling children to gain an understanding of how technology is used all around us, in everyday purposes and how to ensure their safety online.

• Ensuring pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work and how to put this knowledge to use through programming.

• Incorporating cross-curricular links in computing, to ensure that areas of the curriculum feed into, enhance one another and join together to build a ‘bigger picture’ understanding. 

• Computing has strong links with maths, PSHE and DT.

2. Unlocking children’s true social and emotional potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’ as unique, well-rounded individuals.

We aim to foster happy and healthy children, within a safe environment, who are given the help they need to learn, grow and achieve as much as they possibly can in an atmosphere which nourishes a healthy mind and body. We want our children to believe that each one of them holds the power to make a difference in the world through ‘doing all of the good they can.’ 

In Computing we do this through:

• British values

• Following strong units of progressive learning in online safety that is interwoven through the PSHE curriculum too.

• Pupil voice about computing

• Children will learn lessons from computing to support their futures

• SEND children have the opportunity to use ICT equipment to support their barriers to learning.

3. Unlocking children’s true potential to ‘flourish’ as life-long learners through raising individual expectations, self-belief and exposure to ‘opportunity’

We aim to help our children to be aware of and see ‘opportunity’ beyond their locality and starting points through exposure to the wider world. We aim to provide a broad, balanced curriculum with a wide variety of experiences which nurture the talents and interests of our children enabling them to become resilient, creative, enquiring learners and effective communicators who persevere and aspire for excellence.

In Computing we do this through:

• Providing Long Term Plans which ensure the children study a range of programs and software.

• Giving children opportunities to compare different artists as their knowledge broadens the further they move up in school.

• Providing a whole school plan to ensure skills are built on and developed as the children move through the school.

• Encouraging use of discussion and pupil voice to talk about what they like/don’t like.

• Providing a language rich curriculum to give the children the words to communicate how they feel about a piece of work.

• Encourage self-evaluation and peer-evaluation of their own work.

4. For our children to ‘do all of the good they can’ by broadening their horizons and developing each of them as a responsible local and global citizen. 

We want our children to appreciate their role as part of our community. We encourage them to ask questions, make informed choices and to take responsibility for the decisions they make. As a result, we hope to foster in our children an awareness of the difference they can make as local & global citizens, treating others with compassion and respect.

In Computing we do this through:

• Celebrating Internet Safety Day including taking part in a workshop appropriate for the differing ages.

• Attending career’s fayres so that the children can see first-hand the opportunities technology offers in the wider world.

• In Year 5, children are offered the opportunity to attend one of our feeder secondary schools – Baysgarth – for an IT event/ workshop.

Computing Curriculum Intent Map East Halton

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