Computing

Computing Curriculum Intent

“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.” Alan Turing.

 Understanding technology and its potential is essential in a rapidly changing world where the use of computers is a significant part of everyone’s daily life. Through teaching computing, we ensure that children have the necessary skills to be able to use technology in an effective, creative and confident way. A focus on the fundamental skills required when coding or dealing with new software gives our children great confidence in their abilities. This confidence allows them to tinker and explore programs – creating a thirst for learning which allows them to reach their potential.

At Giles Junior School, we not only want children to be digitally literate but through our computing lessons we want them to develop ingenuity, resilience and problem-solving and critical thinking skills. We want our pupils to have a wide breadth of experience – enabling them to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information to others in a variety of formats.

'I loved coding in Scratch - it was like a puzzle to find out what was wrong.' - child from 3 Italy

'Don't use real photos online! Use an avatar instead.' - child from 4 Costa Rica

'Coding is amazing! I like using all the skills I've learned in class to make my own games at home.' - child from 5 France

'Thanks to learning about how to record audio and animate figures, I make my own animations and had one about the 7 Habits played in assembly' - child from 6 Germany