At Lingdale Primary School, we give the children the skills and knowledge to become digital citizens. This enables them to play an active role beyond school in an ever-changing digital landscape. It is a cohesive curriculum that teaches children a range of skills and knowledge around the three strands of computing set out in the National Curriculum:
- Computer Science
- Digital Literacy
- Information Technology
The skills the children will learn can be used throughout wider learning opportunities and they will be given the opportunity to do this across different subjects within school. The curriculum is progressive where clearly defined expectations for every year group are clear and builds on previous learning.
Alongside this, it is paramount that all children understand online safety. Through the use of Project Evolve, each half term has a focus area to explore an element of online safety. Again, this is progressive throughout school enabling skills and understanding to built upon each year to support their digital literacy.
The curriculum has been designed in such a way that supports our mixed year group provision. The curriculum runs as cycle A and cycle B so all children are given the opportunity to access all of the skills and knowledge required by the end of each phase of school. Where one skill or piece of knowledge requires prior knowledge within a phase, both areas of focus are in the same cycle to ensure children don’t learn something before having the underpinning prior knowledge required to be successful. Our disciplinary skills will continue to be built upon each year even though they are in mixed year groups.
