Earlham Primary School

• A high-quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world;

• We want our pupils to be digitally literate at a level suitable for the future workplace as we believe that computing is increasingly a key skill for future employability;

• Our computing curriculum is cross-curricular and is designed to give children opportunities to use a variety of tools in ways that support their thematic learning in other subjects e.g. Year 3 learn about databases using a database of Roman emperors, which links to their history unit about the Romans;

• Children acquire skills that they can then use across the wider curriculum - e.g. once they know how to create and edit an ebook they can use this software to create product in other subjects ;

• We have developed our computing curriculum around four key key areas: digital productivity, digital creativity, programming, and computing technology and online safety. Learning is sequenced to ensure that children build on their previous learning in each of these four areas.

Covid adaptations to our computing curriculum:  as a result of the configured classrooms, we cannot deliver the Y2 green screen, Y4 editing stop motion animation or the Y6 broadcast videos units in 2020-21. Alternative units have been designed for this year.