Miss A foxe (Infant School) and Mr J Holmes (Junior School) are our Computing Curriculum Leaders.

Intent

Through our computing curriculum we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology in a socially responsible and safe way in order to flourish. We want our pupils to be able to operate in the 21st century workplace and we want them to know the career opportunities that will be open to them if they study computing.  We want children to become autonomous, independent users of computing technologies, gaining confidence and enjoyment from their activities. We want the use of technology to support learning across the entire curriculum and to ensure that our curriculum is accessible to every child.  Not only do we want them to be digitally literate and competent end-users of technology but through our computer science lessons we want them to develop creativity, resilience, problem-solving  and critical thinking skills.  We want our pupils to have a breadth of experience to develop their understanding of themselves as individuals within their community but also as members of a wider global community and as responsible digital citizens.

Implementation

Learning overviews have been created for every topic covered during the year (one per term). The plans identify:

• The core theme which is used as the basis for cross-curricular learning
• The main computing subject knowledge to be covered. Sometimes this is taught in relation to the theme but computing is also sometimes taught as a discrete subject
• Key computing skills to be covered during the unit of work

Teachers refer to the EYFS curriculum, the National Curriculum Programmes of Study and Key Skills and other relevant guidance including our curriculum progressions. Topic guides are shared with parents to inform them of the learning that their child will experience that term.

Medium Term Planning

A sequence of core lesson objectives have been identified to be covered as part of their unit of work. Teachers are encouraged to be flexible, and may choose to stagger or block lessons as they feel is most appropriate to the needs and interests of their class.

Weekly Planning includes:

• Specific learning goals and learning outcomes/success criteria, clearly showing progression in learning and skills across the week or block of work.
• Core learning goal, key skills areas and success criteria (differentiated skills descriptors)
• Outline teaching input
• Outline differentiated tasks for groups of children
• Assessment for learning opportunities

Our Distance Marking Sheets (DMS) allow space for annotation, which teachers use to make assessment notes and identify their guided groups for the following lessons.

At Chalfont St Giles Village School, we provide learning opportunities for the needs of individual children of all genders from all ethnic and social groups, including the most-able and those who are experiencing learning difficulties. We aim to enable all pupils to make progress by setting suitable learning challenges and responding to each child’s different needs. Assessment against the learning objectives allows us to consider each child’s attainment and progress against expected levels.

Impact

We strive to ensure that our children’s attainment and progress is in line with or exceeding their potential when we consider the varied starting points of children. We measure this carefully using a range of materials, but always considering the expectations set.   We have high aspirations and aim for all children to be academically and physically prepared for the next stage of their education and ready for life in Modern Britain and the wider world. As children progress throughout the school, they develop deeper and wider computing subject knowledge and skills and interact with a wide range of software and platforms which engage and motivate our learners.