St Meriadoc Juniors provide a high-quality computing education which equips pupils 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. The core of computing is computer science, in which pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming. Building on this knowledge and understanding, pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content. Computing also ensures that pupils 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 and as active participants in a digital world

 

Our aims

Our computing curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils:

• can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
• can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
• can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
• are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

We use a variety of technology to achieve this. We have a class set of Google Chromebooks and each class has access to iPads whenever needed. There are lots of opportunities for children to learn a range of software depending on year group and topics being covered. These include: Google Classroom and the Google Suite for education, Pages, Garageband, Scratch, Pixlr, ComicLife, Padlet, iMovie, Trinket and Tinkercad. We teach E-Safety as part of our curriculum but also embed it in other lessons as the opportunities arise.

"Let the wise hear and increase in learning…"

Proverbs 1:5 ESV