Computing

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe of you just want to pursue a career in the 21^st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Stephen Hawkings

Attainment

By delivering a curriculum of Computing our intent is to provide a balanced and informed curriculum across all key stages in the school. The aim is for the students to be active and engaged users and creators in the emerging digital economy. The curriculum is designed to allow students to have access to both Computer Science and Information Technology and make informed choices on how they pursue the subjects as they continue their learning journey through the school. The vision is for the students to learn transferable skills that can be applied to legacy subjects to speed up the research and analysis required to pinpoint key information to further progress in these subjects. We also aim for the students to leave their education here with the skill set to keep their knowledge up to date in the ever-changing digital technology landscape.

Appreciation

A high-quality computing education equips students to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems. Information Technology ensures that students become digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace. As active, aware and informed participants in the digital world.

Reflection

Our curriculum is designed to educate pupils on core skills that can be applied to a variety of tasks, software and situations, whilst developing a lifelong love of computing. Whether this love is focused on robotics, coding, gaming, animation or other aspects of Computing we are able and will support our students pursue their passions. Through the provision of scaffolding and support we enable our students to become innovative and successful members of the world around them.

By encouraging our pupils to ‘Think like a programmer’ we are confident that they will be able to identify, deconstruct, prepare and achieve their dreams.

Computing Key Strands

The Computing curriculum has been designed to cover the three main areas of Digital Literacy, Computer Science and Information Technology. As we move from KS3 into KS4 and KS4 we offer two courses, focused on Computer Science and Information Technology