At Lindow Community Primary School, our intent is for all our children to secure knowledge of computer science and computational skills in order to use and apply these safely in our increasingly digitised world. By the time children transfer to the next stage of their education, they will be computer-literate and confident to use and express themselves through information and communication technology, develop coding skills, and ensure they are aware of the risks of the digital world.

At Lindow, we want students to master their computing knowledge and skills. The end points are made clear to staff and students at the beginning of each unit of work via student e-portfolios.

The Computing curriculum consists of three strands: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Digital Literacy. Each of these strands can have highly heterogenous learning outcomes, resulting in a need to have an altered style of pedagogy, feedback and assessment.

For Computer Science, students will need to demonstrate essential skills and the pedagogical paradigm can be led by the process model of coding confidence:

For Information Technology, students will be expected to demonstrate essential knowledge of the evolving digital world we live in. These units will have a greater emphasis on developing students’ wealth of knowledge (rather than just skill) on how the digital world operates.

For digital literacy, students will need to show they are competent with using technology and are highly aware of the risks that come with it.

Throughout all of Computing it is imperative that we allow regular opportunities to discuss the risks of the digital world, covering, as discussed in the KCSiE document, the 4Cs of online safety: conduct, contact, commercialism and content.

Although this is also covered in Assemblies and the PSHE curriculum explicitly, as regularly as possible, teachers will lead discussions and activities that develop this awareness through their computing lessons.