Computing
Tuesday 9th February - Save the date!
Plans for a Safer Internet 2016 will take place during the second week of February as well as a parent session on Tuesday 9th February. There will be an assembly and the children will have various eSafety activities to do as part of PSHE in class.
Click on our home page for direct access to Parent Information from CEOP and Parent Zone
Internet Safety Letter to Parents 2016
Online Safety Presentation 2016
Computing Policy 2015 (pending)
St Paul's eSafety Rules and consent
Social Networking Letter for Parents 2015
Online Safety Handout for Parents 2015
Safeguarding your child online Letter for Parents 2014
Curriculum Structure
Our aim is to help ensure all children have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills, experiences and competencies in accordance with the DfE and new technology. We also aim to enhance aspects of our spritual, moral, social and cultural learning as well as promote online safety.
Our Computing curriculum has been broken down during 2014/15 into 3 main areas of computing.
Digital Literacy/Information Technology/Computer Science
Our Computing Curriculum policy will be updated accordingly during 2015/16
During our Computing time in the ICT Suite we will now be exploring the following topics:
Reception - mouse skills, typing skills and recognising letters, familiarity with programs and other technologies, Online Safety
Year 1- Computers at home/What is an algorithm?/Music & Art/Using 2DIY to build simple games /eBooks/BeeBot1 for control
Year 2- Computers at work/Using 2DIY to make games/Animation/What is a Blog?/Creating Graphs/BeeBot2 for control
Year 3 - Touch Typing/First Hour of Code/Introducing Kodu for gamemaking/LegoWeDo models/Digital Photography/Music/Branching Databases
Year 4 - Kodu gamemaking/Code/Logo graphics for control/Branching Databases/Can we create an App?/Animation(Powerpoints)
Year 5- Internet & SafeSearching/Introducing Scratch /Google Sketchup designs/Flowol for control/AnimateIt/Look at Web Design&Apps (Powerpoints)
Year 6- Web Design&HTML Code + Apps&Podcasts/Spreadsheets/What is Chroma Key?/Programming using Scratch/(Powerpoints)
Using the internet, Creating & Publishing & Online Safety will be ongoing throughout the year within class
https://www.raiseonline.org/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
https://sa.education.gov.uk/idp/Authn/UserPassword
https://www.fftlive.org/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/index.html
https://ncatools.education.gov.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted
http://dashboard.ofsted.gov.uk/