St Stephen's Catholic Primary School and Nursery

Subject Lead: Mr Douglass

 INTENT 

At St. Stephen's we aim to provide our children with a high-quality computing education that equips our pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.

Our computing scheme has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems. The core of computing is computer science, in which our pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming.

Building on this knowledge and understanding, our pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content.

We intend for our pupils to be digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.

In our study of computing at St Stephen’s , we intend that our children will be able to:

• understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
• analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
• evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
• be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

 IMPLEMENTATION 

 IMPACT