Computing

Longford Park's aim is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about Computing. Learning skills in Computing, including coding, programming and debugging, is essential for our children to develop given that technology plays such a significant role in daily life. This includes home lives and professional lives. The intention is that pupils will feel able and encouraged to continue studying Computing beyond Key Stage 2 and ultimately be working towards using their technological skills to good effect.

We use the Kapow curriculum to deliver cumputing across the school. This is a 'spiral' curriculum, with key skills and techniques revisited repeatedly with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.  

The scheme covers all the national curriculum requirements and more, ensuring that children become confident in their use of computers as well as learning to understand and generate algorithms and code.  Online safety is an important part of the scheme.   

For more information about what children will be learning each term in their computing lessons, please see this overview: Computing-overview.pdf

https://scratch.mit.edu/ is also a great free website for children to practice Computing skills and have fun doing it!