Computing
Curriculum Overview
In line with the National Curriculum Purpose of Study for Computing the aim of the Academy is that its pupils, “use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.” We want our children to be masters not consumers, of the ever-changing digital world in which they are growing up; to be able to make informed decisions about their usage of digital applications current and actual now, and in the future as and when new opportunities arise.
Programming is a key element of the Computing Curriculum. The Greetland Academy follows the Discovery Coding skills progression.
e-Safety
The Academy recognises the importance of its children being digitally literate, responsible and safe users of online technologies. Within our Computing Curriculum there are planned focuses on e-Safety at the beginning and end of each academic year, before Christmas and around Safer Internet Day each February. During the year children are routinely taught and reminded about good practice whenever appropriate across the curriculum.
From Reception onwards pupils are told to always share any online concerns with a trusted adult, this including adults at school. Children and their parents are appropriately supported when worries are raised. Such issues are then used as teaching points with relevant year groups and shared with a wider community of parents via the Academy’s Seesaw pages, website, and Facebook page. As children progress through the Academy they are given more in-depth guidance as appropriate to their age and likely usage and experience of the digital world.
Our Computing Curriculum
Computing at The Greetland Academy
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Our aims for our pupils
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Greetland’s ‘Computing Legends’
We aim to equip pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life.
Our understanding of ‘knowledge and cultural capital’ is derived from the following wording in the national curriculum:
‘It is the essential knowledge that pupils need to be educated citizens,
introducing them to the best that has been thought and said and helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.’
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Our Computing Knowledge Organisers
What our pupils will be taught as they move through The Greetland Academy:
Computing Knowledge Organiser Years 1 & 2
Computing Knowledge Organiser Years 3 & 4
Computing Knowledge Organiser Years 5 & 6