Lead: Mr A Tasker
Our Intent at Swinton Queen
At Swinton Queen, we ensure that we provide pupils with a high-quality and relevant computing curriculum that keeps pace with the rapidly changing world of technology.
Our computing curriculum is underpinned by three main areas identified in The National Curriculum Programme of Study for Computing, which aims to ensure that all pupils can do the following:
Computer Science
Pupils understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.
Pupils analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.
Information Technology
Pupils evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.
Digital Literacy
Pupils are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
Our Implementation at Swinton Queen
We are fully invested in allowing our students to become active participants in a digital world. As such, we have developed a bespoke computing curriculum to meet the specific needs of our children at Swinton Queen.
Our curriculum frames the national curriculum objectives and ensures that our children are challenged, through opportunities with technology that may not always be available outside school.
To ensure our lessons and units of work provide an engaging, progressive computing curriculum, we have developed four key concepts which thread through each phase of school:
Systems and Communication
Programming
Media, Data and Digital Life
Online Safety
Each unit of work will focus upon one key concept in detail in order to focus our children’s learning, with the concept of Online Safety being covered each term throughout the year. This provides multiple cross curricular links to Digital Literacy and Resilience linked within PHSE.
Every young person should have the opportunity to study computing. For students with SEND, technology provides great opportunities for accessing learning, for enabling communication and preparing them for their future lives and careers. This can include speech to text or text to speech to aid in reading, typing and dual coding for understanding.
We reinforce our pupil’s basic ICT skills elsewhere in our curriculum such as through literacy lessons or by using ICT as a research tool in other foundation subjects.
Credits:
Created with images by JoshuaWoroniecki - "laptop digital device technology" • jamesmarkosborne - "code html digital" • Firmbee - "ux design webdesign"