Intent

Through our Computing curriculum, we nurture big hearts and bold futures by inspiring a love of computing and digital technology. We encourage curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm as pupils explore how technology can be used to make a positive difference. Using Kapow Primary’s Computing scheme, we foster enjoyment and confidence while helping children appreciate the wide range of opportunities technology offers to create, manage, organise and collaborate.

Tinkering with software and programs is central to our ethos, enabling pupils to develop resilience, independence and confidence when encountering new technologies. Through our curriculum, we aim to equip pupils with the digital competence and transferable skills needed for an ever-changing future, while also developing big hearts through responsible, respectful and safe online behaviour. In doing so, we prepare our children for bold futures as thoughtful, capable and responsible digital citizens.

Our computing curriculum covers the four key areas, as outlined in the National Curriculum:

• Computer science: understanding and applying the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
• Information technology: evaluating and applying information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, and solving problems analytically
• Digital literacy: analysing problems in computational terms, and having repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
• Online safety: providing the children with guidance that prepares them to live safely in the digital world around them.