Computing
Our ambition for computing education:
Our aim is to provide a high-quality computing education, which equips students to use computational thinking and creativity to understand their ever-changing world.
The curriculum will teach children key knowledge about how computers and computer systems work, and how they are designed and programmed. In their time at the Skylark Federation, students will have gained key knowledge and skills in the three main areas of the computing curriculum: computer science (programming and understanding how digital systems work), information technology (using computer systems to store, retrieve and send information) and digital literacy (evaluating digital content and using technology safely and respectfully).
Computing skills are a major factor in enabling students to be confident, creative and independent learners. Our intention is that pupils have every opportunity available to enjoy the subject area and to be challenged in this key, fast-growing area of life.
Our ambition is for students to leave us with advanced personal skills, in order to be able to safely use technology and use it as an educational vehicle to apply to their entire education and future life.
Schemes of learning
Schemes of learning are planned according to their position within the curriculum sequence. End points and the progression in skills and knowledge ensure that the curriculum is sequenced to develop and build upon students’ prior learning.
We use the curriculum provider KAPOW to teach computing. The produced schemes of learning to ensure that our computing curriculum is effectively planned and sequenced. Schemes are based on a clear progression in skills and knowledge. Online safety is taught throughout the curriculum with all classes receiving teaching during every unit. . They provide teachers with the key objectives, prior learning, future learning, key vocabulary, assessment indicators, common misconceptions, and ideas for teaching and gathering evidence of learning they need to help us ensure that our computing curriculum is implemented effectively and produces students who can demonstrate proficiency in the subject.