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Computing

At Christ the King Catholic and CofE Primary School, our Christian faith underpins every aspect of the curriculum and is at the centre of our learning.  Children are actively encouraged to ‘Build God’s Kingdom’.

Intent:

It is our intent at Christ the King Primary School to provide pupils with a relevant, challenging, and high-quality computing curriculum that teaches pupils to use computing safely and respectfully. To understand the role and relevance of technology within our world so that they can use computing effectively within their education and wider life. It is important to respond to new developments in technology and equip pupils with the confidence and competence to use computing in later life. The computing curriculum allows them to communicate, problem solve, reason and be creative within a safe and stimulating environment.

  • The National Curriculum for Computing states that ‘computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world’. Computing should be taught as part of a broad and balanced curriculum using both its obvious links to science and maths as well as enriching other curriculum areas. The aims of the National Curriculum are 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 solve problems.
  • Are responsible, competent, confident, and creative users of information and communication technology.

At Christ the King Primary School we intend to meet the National Curriculum aims through a broad and balanced curriculum in which computing plays a vital role for all pupils from Foundation stage to Year 6. We want our children to be able to use technology safely, respectfully, and responsibly.