Benenden Church of England Primary School

Computing

Technology is changing the lives of everyone. Through teaching Computing we equip children to participate in a rapidly-changing world where work and leisure activities are increasingly transformed by technology.

Our Intention

It is our intention to enable children to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information. We also focus on developing the skills necessary for children to be able to use information in a discriminating and effective way.

Computing skills are a major factor in enabling children to be confident, creative and independent learners and it is our intention that children have every opportunity available to allow them to achieve this.


Our Curriculum

The national curriculum for computing aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation

  • can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems

  • can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems

  • are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication

At Benenden Primary we follow the 'Teach Computing' which provides and fun, engaging and informative curriculum designed to help pupils build on their skills year on year. 

Here is the primary curriculum map to show what pupils are taught in each year:

curriclum journey primary 2024 2025.pdf

 

The progression in Computing is as follows:

progression of skills computing 10 10 fed.pdf

  

Our Technology

 

At Benenden we are very lucky to have the latest technology to support our curriculum. We are a Google school primarily use Chromebooks both in Computing and in other areas of our learning. We also have a small number of Ipads to support lessons. Each child is given a Google login and Drive where their learning is saved, we also have shared spaces called Classrooms which are heavily used throughout the school.