Computing and ICT will undoubtedly continue to play a major role in the children’s lives at home, in further education and future workplaces, so we wish to ensure that their key experiences and developing abilities are both transferable and effective life skills. We want to equip pupils of all ages to understand that computational thinking and programming skills help them to understand both the natural and digital systems in the world around them. Our aim is that pupils can safely and confidently use a range of technology to creatively express themselves and to be active participants in the digital world. We want computing to be integrated into everyday teaching and learning to engage, inspire and record our unique curriculum.

National Curriculum for Computing

The National Curriculum for computing aims to ensure that all children:

• 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 technology.