Computing at New Cangle Community Primary School
Intent Implementation Impact
At New Cangle Community Primary School, To ensure a broad range of skills and understanding, Computing is taught Teachers measure the impact of computing learning
we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that across three main strands: digital literacy, computer science and information through formative and summative assessment, which
will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology. Digital literacy is paramount within our computing curriculum. informs future planning. Strategies such as lesson drop
technology in a socially responsible and safe Children are taught to use technology responsibly and respectfully to become ins, reflective discussions with staff (teacher voice),
way. We want to equip our pupils to use positive role models within an increasing digital society. In computer science pupil discussions/interviews with pupils about their
computational thinking and creativity to we provide children with opportunities to design, write and evaluate programs learning (pupil voice) and monitoring of evidence of
understand and change the world. and develop critical thinking. In information technology children are learning are used by leaders to measure impact
encouraged to collect and present information expressing their own ideas. throughout the school.
We want our children to become
autonomous, independent users of At New Cangle, computing is taught in discreet computing lessons, where we Formative assessment occurs on a lesson by lesson
computing technologies, gaining confidence follow the NCCE Teach Computing scheme of work. The Teach Computing basis based on the lesson objectives and outcomes. The
and enjoyment from their activities. Not only Curriculum is structured into six units. Across a year group, the units formative assessment opportunities vary from teacher
do we want them to be digitally literate and themselves do not need to be taught in order, with the exception of observation or questioning, to marked activities.
competent users of technology, but, through ‘Programming’ units, where concepts and skills rely on prior learning and Teachers use these assessments to adapt their teaching
our computer science lessons, we want them experiences. The units for key stages 1 and 2 are based on a spiral curriculum, to suit the needs of the pupils that they are working
to develop creativity, resilience and problem- where each of the themes is revisited at least once in each year group. Pupils with. The learning objective and success criteria are
solving skills, by learning how to be revisit each theme through a new unit that consolidates and builds on prior introduced in the slides at the beginning of every
‘computational thinkers’. learning within that theme. This style of curriculum design reduces the amount lesson. At the end of every lesson, pupils are invited to
of knowledge lost through forgetting, as topics are revisited yearly. assess how well they feel they have met the learning
Through the NCCE Teach Computing objective using thumbs up, thumbs sideways, or
Curriculum we offer a curriculum that Online safety is of high importance within our computing curriculum and each thumbs down. In Key Stage 1 we want to ensure that
provides children with opportunities to unit overview shows the links between the lesson content, the national we are assessing a pupil’s understanding of computing
explore, analyse, evaluate and share curriculum and the Education for a Connected World framework. Not all of the concepts and skills, as opposed to their reading and
information effectively. Digital Literacy is a objectives in the Education for a Connected World framework are covered in writing skill. Therefore, we encourage the use of
fundamental aspect within our computing the Teach Computing Curriculum, as some are picked up within our PSHE observational assessment while pupils are still
curriculum which educates our children to curriculum. However, the coverage required for the computing national developing their literacy skills, as we believe that this is
become responsible users of technology. curriculum is provided within the Teach Computing Curriculum. the most reliable way to capture an accurate picture of
learning. Throughout our computing curriculum there
Furthermore, through computing, we want In order to enhance the scheme of work New Cangle has a wide range of are opportunities for summative assessments in Key
children to understand how to act safely technological equipment to enrich the subject such as: laptops, ipads, cameras, Stage 2 in the form of multiple choice quizzes or a
online and how the use of technology beebots, micro-bits, a coding set and data logging equipment. rubric.
supports learning across the entire
curriculum.
