Curriculum Intent: Computing

Possibilities - To have high aspirations and know all of the opportunities available to them. 

Growth - To recognise and celebrate their own individual journey, understanding their own uniqueness and strengths and those of others                            

Communication - To have high levels of racy; having a rich and wide vocabulary to be able to explain their own ideas and thinking and be able to collaborate and respond to others.

Whole school curriculum vision for Computing
Possibilities                            To have high aspirations	Pupils will become confident in using technology to produce pieces of work and how it plays an important role in society. They will learn the skills and knowledge needed to support them in their future learning and employment.
Growth To recognise and celebrate their own individual journey	Pupils will have opportunities to develop their technological skills during their time at The Avenue. They value their own pieces of work and those of others.
Communication To have high levels of oracy	Pupils will become confident in expressing themselves and communicating to others using technology. They will be able to express their ideas verbally or through the use of programs on Purple Mash.

Implementation:

Our pupils should be able to organise their knowledge, skills and understanding into the following threshold concepts:

•  Code
•  Communicate
•  Connect
•  Collect

These key concepts underpin the children’s learning through the year groups from Reception to Year 2. This enables pupils to reinforce and build upon prior learning, make connections and develop subject specific language. 

The vertical accumulation of knowledge and skills from Years R to 2 is mapped as follows:

Progression in Threshold Concepts The procedural and semantic knowledge pupils need to understand the threshold concepts
Threshold Concepts	Reception Step - Foundations to Basic	Year 1 Step - Basic	Year 2 Step - Advancing to Deep
C1 - Coding	Understanding and anticipating that an action can cause a reaction (e.g. pressing a button on a programmable toy)	Know that for a computer to make something happen it needs to follow clear instructions	Create, predict and debug simple programs using correct vocabulary
C2 - Connecting	Know that technology can be used to connect to others and follow safety rules when accessing technology	Begin to know online risks and how to prevent and respond to them	Understand online risks, how to avoid/prevent them and age restrictions for sites
C3 - Communicating	Use and express themselves and develop their ideas through technology
C4 - Collecting	Use simple programs to sort information	Use simple databases to record information	Use and interpret simple databases and representations of information, using appropriate tools

Threshold Concepts	End Point
C1 -Coding	By the end of Year 2... When children leave The Avenue they will be successful in independently creating pieces of work using different programs on Purple Mash both in Computing lessons and across other areas of the curriculum. The children will know that the skills and knowledge they have learnt are transferable and will support their learning in the next stage of their academic journey.
C2 - Connecting
C3 - Communicating
C4 - Collecting

Aspirations For The Future

Pupils develop an understanding of how subjects and specific skills are linked to future jobs.

Here are some of the jobs you could aspire to do in the future as a Computer Scientist:

·Teacher

· Technology Support

· Electronic games creator

· Police

For more careers, please visit  First Careers

Impact

Assessment

Through the explicit teaching of the Computing skills, both the teachers and the pupils assess their learning continuously throughout the lesson. Our assessment systems enable teachers to make informed judgements about the depth of their learning and the progress they have made over time.   

Pupil Voice

Reception:

“We play games on the IPad.”

Year 1:

"I liked the fish under water game. We had to give the fish instructions to move around.” 

 “I am enjoying making up my own story. I drew my character last week."                       

“Grownups use computers to work, face time and do video calls.”

Year 2:

”We show we are listening and persevering.” - how they show they are trying their best in lessons.                        

“We have been comparing houses and finding out who lives in them                                               

”I play Purple Mash at home.”

Snapshots

Here is what Computing looks like at The Avenue: