Computing
Computing - Subject Leader Mrs Allchurch
Intent
Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in our children's lives. Therefore, we want to model and educate our children on how to use technology positively, responsibly and safely. We want to incorporate a blended approach to teaching a learning that is based around the 4C’s:
● communication
● collaboration
● critical thinking
● creativity
We will use Google Classroom, Teach Computing and Barefoot computing to teach a progressive curriculum that encompasses computer science, information technology and
digital literacy. We want our pupils to understand that there is always a choice with usingtechnology and as a school we utilise technology (especially social media) to model positive use. We recognise that the best prevention for a lot of issues we currently see withtechnology/social media is through education. Building our knowledge in this subject will allow pupils to effectively demonstrate their learning through creative use of technology.We recognise that technology can allow children to be collaborative and share their learning in creative ways. We also understand the accessibility opportunities technology can provide for our children. Our knowledge rich curriculum has to be balanced with the opportunity for pupils to apply their knowledge creatively which will in turn help our pupils become skillful computer scientists. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible.
Enhancing learning through technology is vitally important at Bretherton and we areconstantly looking at ways to enhance our technology. Along with the Chrome book lease
scheme to ensure all children from Class 2 onwards have access to a one to one device, wehave two class sets of I-Pads and a full class of Chrome books. All classes use Google classroom as a way of developing a blended classroom that uses computing to enhancelearning throughout the curriculum. This was invaluable during lockdowns and allowedteaching and learning to continue to a high standard even with children at home. GoogleClassroom is a suite of online tools that allows teachers to set assignments, have work submitted by students, to mark, and to return graded papers. Classrooms works with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Earth, Calendar, and Gmail, and can be supplemented by Google Hangouts or Meet for face-to-face live teaching or questions.
The national curriculum for computing aims to ensure that all pupils:
- can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
- can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
- can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
- are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology
Enhancing learning through technology is vitally important at Bretherton and we are constantly looking at ways to enhance our technology. Along with the Chrome book lease scheme to ensure all children from Class 2 onwards have acces to a one to one device, two class sets of I-Pads and a full class of Chrome books. All classes use Google classroom as a way of developing a blended classroom that uses computing to enhance learning throughout the curriculum. This was invaluable during lockdowns and allowed teaching and learning to continue to a high standard even with children at home. Google Classroom is a suite of online tools that allows teachers to set assignments, have work submitted by students, to mark, and to return graded papers. Classrooms works with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Earth, Calendar, and Gmail, and can be supplemented by Google Hangouts or Meet for face-to-face live teaching or questions.
Through our five year plan, developed with a Google educator, we are on an exciting journey and constantly evolving what we offer our pupils and the future generations.
Online Safety.
Online safety at Bretherton focuses on underpinning knowledge and behaviours that help pupils to navigate the online world safely and confidently regardless of teh device, platform or app. We ensure that teaching is:
- built into lessons across the curriculum
- covered within specific online safety lessons
- covered using a school-wide approach
We support our teaching by using Jigsaw PSHE scheme, the National Online Safety Platform as well as inviting outside agencies such as NSPCC and local police into school.
Subject Focus Areas 25-26
- Support staff with the implementation and teaching of the Teach Computing scheme.
- Monitor the impact of the Teach computing scheme.
- To assure there is accurate assessment that informs adaptive teaching, allowing us to build upon previous learning
and supporting development of ideas and skills through the whole computing curriculum.
Our Long Term Plan
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