Snaresbrook Primary School

It is our aim to enable children to explore, recognise, create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital information, from programs and online.  From the early stages of computing in EYFS, to exploration in key stage 1 and key stage 2, culminating in creating and debugging programs, the aim of our Computing curriculum is to create digitally-literate learners. We want our children to be able to use, express themselves and develop their ideas through information technology and communication technology, thus enabling them to be active participants in a digital world.

In Key stage 1 and 2 children have one timetabled teacher-led lesson a week, which focuses on key skills necessary to access the Computing curriculum. The school uses the ‘Rising Star’ computing scheme alongside local authority recommended resources such as Espresso, Code.org and Scratch 2. Class teachers have an allotted time either with class laptops or in the ICT suite to teach computing in a cross-curricular context. The computer programming aspect of the curriculum particularly overlaps well with Science (investigation, exploration, data analysis), Maths (processes, methods, logic) and English (editing and reviewing). The school has a dedicated computer suite with 31 networked terminals. Laptops and iPads are designated to pupils with SEN. There is wi-fi access throughout the school and each class has a teaching computer connected to an interactive whiteboard, including audio and DVD facilities as well as a class iPad.