Manor Primary School

ICT and Computing

Technology alone is not enough 

- Steve Jobs 

Intent

At Manor Primary school, we believe computing skills are a major factor in enabling children to be confident, creative and independent learners and it is our intention that our children have every opportunity available to allow them to achieve this.

We intend to build a computing curriculum that develops pupil’s learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge of the world around them.

Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in our students' lives. Therefore, we want to model and educate our pupils on how to use technology positively and safely.

We want our students to be confident and competent using a range of technology and our broad computing curriculum includes computer science, digital literacy and online safety. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible.

We recognise that technology can allow pupils to share their learning in creative ways.

Implementation

We will achieve this objective by developing children’s:

  • Understanding of the fundamental principles of computer science.
  • Analysis of problems in computational terms and practical experiences of writing programs to solve these problems.
  • Ability to evaluate and apply information technology to solve problems.
  • Ability to become competent, confident and creative users of information technology.

What you will see in a Manor Primary School Computing Lesson

  • Engaging and inspiring lessons that promote creativity and curiosity.
  • High quality instruction and questioning with teachers providing carefully planned, sequenced and modelled lessons that build on children’s computational knowledge and skills.
  • Achievement and Inclusion for all: All activities are planned, scaffolded and adapted to ensure every child at Manor can achieve highly in Computing. This may include adapted resources, adult support and awareness of physical/sensory needs.
  • Use of the Teach Computing Curriculum to ensure that all areas of the National Curriculum are taught in depth with a focus on high quality resources and hands on experience for all children.
  • Authentic experiences with a focus on collaboration, specifically paired programming and peer instruction.
  • The use of a range of computer software for example code.org/Scratch Jnr to provide a creative, engaging environment to explore learning.
  • High quality talk giving opportunities for children to discuss, evaluate and ‘debug’.
  • An emphasis on correct and ambitious vocabulary.
  • High quality verbal feedback during lessons.
  • A proactive focus on Digital Citizenship, evaluating our own digital footprint and the implications of our increasing online presence.

Curriculum Planning

Class teachers use the medium terms planning sheets adapted from Teach Computing Resource to ensure the above claims are encompassed into a creative curriculum delivered through a range of teaching styles. Teachers incorporate as much ICT and computing curriculum into topic teaching, however each class has a set ICT slot once a week in order to address all parts of the curriculum. Staff work alongside Hi-Impact curriculum consultants to deliver a wide ranging ICT curriculum from a range of sources.

Staff also use curriculum plans designed by Hi-Impact which link to the range of topics across the wider curriculum. This enables us to enhance our ICT and computing provision and allows opportunity to revisit and review previous learning.

Resources

The school have an ICT suite (16 PCs and 6 Macs) where children are able access majority of the computing curriculum. As well as this there is a class set of ipods and 3 ipads to develop further skills. Computers have been taken off the RM network and re-built by Hi-Impact. Children have access to a range of internet based resources to broaden their knowledge and understanding of the ICT and computing curriculum including Scratch and Code.org.

Impact

We will measure impact of this through:

  • Monitoring of the curriculum
  • Work/planning scrutinies
  • Learning walks
  • End of unit assessments
  • End of year assessments

 Our Curriculum 

ICT and Computing Long Term Plan 2022-23

Vocabulary 

Curriculum Enhancement 

 

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