Computing

Intent

The Shadsworth Infant School computing provision aims to equip our children to participate in a rapidly changing world where work and leisure activities are increasingly transformed by technology. It is our intention to enable children to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information in a safe, responsible and respectful manner. We also focus on developing the skills necessary for children to be able to use information in a discriminating and effective way. Our computing curriculum, with our more recent emphasis on programming, enables children to develop their problem solving and reasoning abilities. It enables children to understand and apply the essential principles and concepts of Computer Science, including logic, algorithms and data representation, analyse problems in computational term, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems. Computing skills are a major factor in enabling children to be confident, creative and independent learners and it is our intention that children have every opportunity available to allow them to achieve this.

Implementation

Impact

Computing at Shadsworth Infant School is assessed using the following;

•  informal judgements by staff during lessons
• immediate next steps provided via verbal feedback
• pupil and peer assessments
• formal skills and assessment checklists

Come the end of each Computing unit, teachers make a summary judgement about the work each pupil has completed in relation to the success criteria. The Computing subject leader monitors class assessment and analyses data on a termly basis.

Subject Knowledge Organisers