Burnham-on-Sea Infant School
'Nurturing Minds, Growing Potential, Enriching Futures'
Computing Curriculum Overview
Curriculum Lead: Tim Richards
Intent
All children at Burnham-on-Sea Infant School have the right to rich, deep learning experience to obtain a broad range of computing skills through a variety of digital experiences. To provide opportunities for children to use and experience technology confidently, safely and responsibly; ensuring our children are on the journey to go into the world digitally literate and prepared for the significant role that technology plays in society today.
Implementation
At Burnham-on-Sea Infants we enable children to understand and apply concepts of computing through the following four main areas: programming, technology around us, creating media and data and information. These areas also run alongside online safety. As well as this, computing is deeply linked with other areas of the curriculum and is embedded throughout the school.
Computing is taught in an engaging and inclusive way through a clear and effective scheme of work, Teach Computing (KS1) and Barefoot computing (EYFS), that provides coverage that is in line with the national curriculum. Children have access to a wide range of digital devices throughout their school journey at Burnham Infants.
The journey begins for Early Years Foundation Stage, with a mixture of taught sessions using the Barefoot Computing materials, and practical exploration through child-initiated play. Alongside this, children are taught how to use technology safely and follow given by a trusted adult, supported by the ELiM active byte materials.
In Key stage 1, children are taught the first steps of computer programming, recognizing how technology is used in their environment, presenting information and how to present the data they have collected. This is taught through the Teach Computing materials. It is a spiralized curriculum where each of the themes are revisited regularly (at least once a year), and pupils revisit each theme through a new unit that consolidates and builds on prior learning within that theme. Each lesson is sequenced so that it builds on the learning from the previous lesson. Exploratory tasks foster a deep understanding of a concept, encouraging pupils to apply their learning in different contexts and make connections with other learning experiences.
As a school, we follow the brilliant ActiveBytes online safety curriculum created by Somerset ELiM. This progressive curriculum builds our understanding of staying safe online as every class regularly takes part in a dedicated online safety lesson related to one of the three key themes:
Since we value our school’s understanding of online safety so highly, we believe that the teaching of online safety should not be limited to discreet lessons. We ensure that this topic is frequently approached in lots of different ways. Whole school assemblies and class discussions promote pupil voice, we take part in national events such as Safer Internet Day. Our online safety efforts are monitored regularly using the 360 safe self-assessment tool.
Lessons are taught in weekly sessions or blocked together, dependent on the unit covered. All lessons have clear objectives, which are achieved through fun and engaging activities. All children have access to the technology across the school and technology to support their learning. Lessons promote the development of safe and appropriate long-term behaviours, whilst also supporting children and staff in shaping the culture at Burnham-on-Sea Infants and beyond.
Impact
Children at Burnham-on-Sea Infants will be;
Computing lead at Burnham-on-Sea will;
Review
October 2023
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