Computing here at Morpeth All Saints…

The use of ICT is promoted in all subject areas and children use computers to enhance and compliment much of their work in school. Every class has access to Chromebooks to ensure individual experiences and progress through whole class focused activities and we have a fantastic computer suite to support learning.

Each class works through a variety of topics for Computing including Digital Literacy (e-Safety), Coding Without Computers and Coding itself. Within school we use a variety of different resources to meet the objectives within the Computing curriculum. We use programmes such as Scratch and j2code to teach programming.

Intent:

Through our computing curriculum at Morpeth All Saints we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology in a socially responsible and safe way in order to flourish. We want our pupils to be able to operate in the 21st century workplace and we want them to know the career opportunities that will be open to them if they study computing.  We want children to become autonomous, independent users of computing technologies, gaining confidence and enjoyment from their activities. We want the use of technology to support learning across the entire curriculum and to ensure that our curriculum is accessible to every child.  Not only do we want them to be digitally literate and competent end-users of technology but through our computer science lessons we want them to develop creativity, resilience and problem-solving  and critical thinking skills.  We want our pupils to have a breadth of experience to develop their understanding of themselves as individuals within their community but also as members of a wider global community and as responsible digital citizens.