Our Father in heaven,  

Grant us the wisdom to use technology in a way that shows love, responsibility and respect.

Teach us to be our best and to lead by example. Help us to use our knowledge and understanding in computing to create a better society for all. May our actions inspire others to use technology responsibly and compassionately.

Lord, we offer our hard work in computing to you. May it be an offering that honours you.

Guide us in using technology as a tool to build bridges, foster understanding, and create a more connected and compassionate world.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen

At St Anne’s R.C. Primary School we want pupils to be masters of technology and not slaves to it. Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in students' lives, therefore, we want to model and educate our pupils on how to use technology positively, responsibly and safely. We want our pupils to be creators not consumers and our broad curriculum encompassing computer science, information technology and digital literacy reflects this. We recognise that the best prevention for a lot of issues we currently see with technology/social media is through education. Building our knowledge in this subject will allow pupils to effectively demonstrate their learning through creative uses of technology. We recognise that technology can allow pupils to share their learning in creative ways. We also understand the accessibility opportunities technology can provide for our pupils. Our knowledge rich curriculum has to be balanced with the opportunity for pupils to apply their knowledge creatively which will in turn help our pupils become skilful computer scientists. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible. We want our pupils to be fluent with a range of tools to best express their understanding and hope by Upper Key Stage 2, children have the independence and confidence to choose the best tool to fulfil the task and challenge set by teachers.

We use Purple Mash, Internet Legends and an external provider to support the implementation of our Computing Curriculum.

Please click the link below to access the content of the National Curriculum by subject and by year group.

The National Curriculum KS1 and KS2 Computing Programme

At St Anne’s RC Primary School, we recognise that our children are growing up in an increasingly complex digital world and although this can provide many exciting opportunities this can also present many risks and challenges. Our mission of ‘Growing together in God’s Love’ underpins all our curriculum and we are committed to the education of the whole child through a broad and balanced curriculum however we recognise that in education today,  keeping safe online is crucial to safeguard our children. At St Anne’s we ensure that the teaching of online safety is appropriate to the age and stage of development of the children. We aim to equip pupils with the skills and knowledge to use technology appropriately, responsibly and respectfully. We teach children how to recognise the risks associated with technology and how to deal with them, both within and outside of the school environment. At St Anne’s our online safety curriculum promotes the British Values of Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs. Our PSHE/RSHE curriculum ensures coverage of the statutory RSHE DFE guidance however at St Anne’s we believe we need to give our children ample opportunities to explore certain strands of this document in greater detail. At St Anne’s we believe it is important to include parents and carers in their child’s education of online safety as they are the first educators of their child.

Children follow a stand-alone curriculum for online safety. This is delivered through project evolve and covers the strands of: 

• Self-image and identity 
• Online relationships 
• Online reputation  
• Online bullying 
• Managing online information 
• Health, wellbeing and lifestyle 
• Privacy and security 
• Copyright and ownership  

Children in EYFS and KS1 receive an online safety lesson once every 2 weeks for the entirety of the year. Children in KS2 receive a lesson once a week during Autumn 1, Spring 1 and Summer 2.  

On-going assessment based on observation; discussion; questioning; written work and end of unit tasks. These will all be collated by the Technola teacher and recorded on the Technola portal. Computing topic questions will be included in the ‘Big Fat Quiz of the Week’ to maintain cognitive recall of historical facts learnt in prior years. At the end of a unit of work, the teacher in conjunction with the computing teacher makes a summary judgement about the work of each pupil if they have yet to obtain, met or exceeded the unit objectives. This data is then recorded on insight. We use this as a basis for assessing the progress of the child at the end of the year. 

All children from EYFS, KS1 and KS2 take part in a check in and check out task for online safety. These tasks involve discussion points based on objectives from the topics to be taught or topic that has been taught. The class then receive a class overview showing how each discussion point was answered using the ratings: 

1. Incorrect 
2. Don’t know 
3. Emerging 
4. Developing 
5. Secure  

The checking in tasks are used to gain an understanding of what children already know and what objectives need to be focused on during online safety lessons for that topic. Check out tasks are used to measure the progress of the class.