At Kings Ash Academy our computing curriculum aims to ‘equip pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world’ (National Curriculum, 2014).
The teaching of computing ensures that deep links with mathematics, science and design and technology and insight into both natural and artificial systems are made explicit and that those links carefully build on pupils’ prior knowledge and understanding. Our school’s context is at the very heart of our computing curriculum, recognising the specific hurdles our pupils and families face that we seek to overcome through provision of high quality equipment and well informed teaching. Alongside this, we recognise that eliciting pupils’ prior knowledge and understanding, access to devices and on and offline experiences is crucial to understanding how to plan to ensure they leave Kings Ash digitally literate, knowing how to keep themselves safe and inspired by real computer scientists and experiences.
