Overview

Our computing curriculum is evolving, meaningful and carefully planned to equip children for an ever-changing digital world.

Through a proactive and responsive approach, pupils develop essential computing knowledge and skills, with a strong focus on online safety, ensuring they are able to use technology confidently and responsibly.

A well-sequenced progression of topics allows children to build on and transfer their learning over time, securing key skills in long-term memory.

As a result, pupils become competent in a range of areas, including coding, databases, multimedia and understanding technologies in everyday life, and confident in applying these skills to new and emerging digital contexts.

Year 1

  • Passwords
  • Technology around us
  • Digital painting
  • Digital writing
  • Simple Bee-Bot programs

Year 2

  • IT around us
  • Making music
  • Pictograms
  • Extending Bee-Bot programs

Year 3

  • Connecting computers
  • Desktop publishing
  • Branching databases
  • Sequence and repetition in Scratch

Year 4

  • Internet and key skills
  • Photo editing
  • Microbit data logging
  • Infinite loops and selection in Scratch

Year 5

  • Systems and searching
  • Vector drawing
  • Making music
  • Selection and variables in Scratch

Year 6

  • Communication and collaboration
  • Web page creation
  • 3D modelling
  • Spreadsheets
  • Selection and variables in Scratch