Intent, Implementation and Impact
Intent |
At Frenchwood, we aim to provide a high-quality computing education and equip our children to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. We want our children to be confident leaders in the world of computing and at Frenchwood we provide our students with the skills, creativity and enthusiasm to continue striving in computing independently.
In school, we work hard to raise the aspirations of our children and to provide good opportunities for their future aspects. With technology playing such a significant role in society today, we believe ‘Computational thinking’ is a skill children must be taught if they are to be able to participate effectively and safely in this digital world. Computing also ensures that pupils become digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.
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Implementation |
At Frenchwood Community Primary School, we have put in place a high-quality computing education to equip pupils to use creativity to understand and change the world. The teachers at school teach all three elements of Computing as well as E-Safety: Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy in which children are introduced to a wide range of technology, including laptops, ipads, green screens, Beebots, data Loggers, crumble and micro bits; allowing them to continually practice and improve the skills they learn. This ensures our children become digitally literate so they are able to express themselves and develop their ideas through information and computer technology.
As with all subjects, reading skills are very important in building children’s knowledge and understanding of computing. Our children love coding and in order for them to debug algorithms, it requires them to read and comprehend the coding language, before debugging the code. These skills are built upon year on year, until the end of year Key Stage Two where children will emerge accomplished in many aspects of computing. Within the computing curriculum, children learn through completing projects and have to gain new skills to complete these units of work. Children in all key stages learn computer programming and coding, testing and debugging their apps as they go.
In addition, we use a variety of resources to develop these skills in school. Classrooms are well resourced with interactive whiteboards, surfboards and student laptops, all of which are used to enhance children’s learning. All children have the opportunity to access laptops which can be used as part of a lesson, for group work, research or as a way of presentation. ICT is used to enhance learning environments throughout the school and the E-safety messages are highlighted throughout the curriculum.
We also take our pupil’s safety very seriously and staff at Frenchwood CP School continuously teach our children how to stay safe online as well as the effects of our Digital Footprint on the World Wide Web.
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Impact |
We want our pupils to have a range of positive experiences within Computing, utilising cross curricular links to help children excel in the subject. A wide range of computing lessons are taught regularly and build upon previous skills, knowledge and experiences. When children leave Frenchwood Community Primary, they are equipped with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and be active participants in the ever-increasing digital world.
The impact of our curriculum will:
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