At Combe CE Primary School, we want all pupils to be ‘techies’ who have:
- Competence in coding for a variety of practical and inventive purposes, including the application of ideas within other subjects.
- The ability to connect with others safely and respectfully, understanding the need to act within the law and with moral and ethical integrity.
- An understanding of the connected nature of devices.
- The ability to communicate ideas well by using applications and devices throughout the curriculum.
- The ability to collect, organise and manipulate data effectively.
We use the ‘Switched On Computing’ scheme to teach Computing. As we have mixed age classes, we teach the scheme over a two year cycle as outlined below.
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | ||
| Year 1 and 2 | A | 1.1 We are treasure hunters (programming) | 1.2 We are chefs (Computational thinking) | 1.4 We are collectors (computer networks) | 2.1 We are astronauts (programming) | 2.2 We are game testers (computational thinking) | 2.4 We are researchers (computer networks) |
| B | 1.3 We are painters (creativity) | 1.5 We are storytellers
(communication/ collaboration) |
1.6 We are celebrating (productivity) | 2.3 We are photographers (creativity) | 2.5 We are detectives (communication/ collaboration) | 2.6 We are zoologist (productivity) | |
| Year 3 and 4 | A | 3.1 We are programmers (programming) | 3.2 We are bug fixers (computational thinking) | 3.3 We are presenters (creativity) | 4.1 We are software developers (programming) | 4.2 We are toy designers (computational thinking) | 4.3 We are musicians (creativity) |
| B | 3.4 We are vloggers (computer networks) | 3.5 We are communicators (communication/ collaboration) | 3.6 We are opinion pollsters (productivity) | 4.4 We are HTML editors (computer networks) | 4.5 We are co-authors (communication/ collaboration) | 4.6 We are meteorologists (productivity ) | |
| Year 5 and 6 | A | 5.1 We are game developers (programming) | 5.2 We are cryptographers (computational thinking) | 5.3 We are artists (creativity) | 6.1 We are adventure gamers (programming) | 6.2 We are computational thinkers (computational thinking) | 6.3 We are advertisers (creativity) |
| B | 5.4 We are web developers (computer networks) | 5.5 We are bloggers (communication/ collaboration) | 5.6 We are architects (productivity) | 6.4 We are network engineers (computer networks) | 6.5 We are travel writers (productivity) | 6.6 We are publishers (communication/ collaboration) |
We have a range of resources to support teaching and learning in Computing, including:
- 32 ipads
- 16 ipad minis
- 32 Google Chromebooks
- Beebots