COMPUTING

Computing Intent

At Bottesford Junior School, we recognise that Computing is an integral part of children’s education, both within and beyond the school community. We believe that providing our pupils with a high-quality Computing curriculum stimulates curiosity and promotes enthusiasm for digital technology, recognising the significant role it plays—and will continue to play—in their lives.

We firmly believe that our broad and balanced Computing curriculum teaches pupils the skills and knowledge they need to become creative, digitally literate, computational thinkers. It also supports their understanding of both the importance of online safety and the ways in which they can stay safe online.

Our curriculum is built around key concepts, terms and vocabulary, providing opportunities to develop a shared and consistent understanding. This approach enables pupils to take their computing knowledge safely and confidently beyond the school environment.

Building on this knowledge and understanding, pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of digital content. Computing also ensures that pupils become more digitally literate, able to express themselves and prepare for the future workplace as active participants in a digital world—one that offers many benefits but also presents online risks that must be recognised and respected.

It is essential that the knowledge gained in Computing is applied across other subject areas, such as programming lights in DT for fairground rides, using data loggers in Science to measure light, sound and temperature, and describing learning stages in Mathematics. Our Computing curriculum aims to teach the skills that enable pupils to meaningfully apply their learning throughout KS2 and across the wider curriculum.