Our intent is based on the National Curriculum. We want to ensure our quality of education is exceptional to allow pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.

We want the core of computing curriculum to be computer science, in which 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, pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content.

We also want our pupils to 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. This means a high focus on keeping safe online in our curriculum and an understanding of how to use ICT responsibly.

We use the NCCE Computing scheme of work to help frame the national curriculum objectives and ensure a high degree of challenge for learners. This scheme delivers blocks of learning that build on what has been taught in previous years and ensure a wide range of coverage of the key strands within the ICT curriculum.

We also make use of Scratch to ensure our children have the skills and experience of block coding. This supports staff and children with their skills. 

We invest heavily in our ICT infrastructure. Pupils can access Ipads, laptops and desktop PCs. We also reinforce pupils basic ICT skills elsewhere in our curriculum such as through English lessons or by using ICT as a research tool in other foundation subjects. Pupil voice features heavily in our curriculum offer with us now recruiting and developing our digital leaders who will deliver online safety assemblies to help raise awareness.

Online Safety is a key part of both our PSHE but also our computing curriculum and we link in with work from companies such as Google with their "Internet Legends" scheme. We also have regular opportunities to share and promote our online safety rules (SMART) which help to make our children safe and effective digital citizens.

As a result of using NCCE computing scheme our Computing Curriculum is well thought out, is planned to demonstrate progression and build on and embed current skills. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills in the different computational components and alike other subjects, discrete vocabulary progression also forms part of the units of work. If children are keeping up with the curriculum, they are deemed to be making good or better progress.

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

• Discussions with children, interviewing them about their learning (pupil voice).


• Moderation staff meetings with opportunities for dialogue between teachers.


• Photo evidence and images of the learners’ practical learning.


• Presentation of work through Fabulous Finish Exhibitions


• A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes.


• Learning walks and reflective staff feedback (teacher voice).