Subject Leader – Mrs Milne
Willington Primary School Computing Intent
Willington Primary School’s computing provision aims to equip our children to participate in a rapidly changing world where work and leisure activities are increasingly transformed by technology. It is our intention to enable children to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information in a safe, responsible and respectful manner. We also focus on developing the skills necessary for children to be able to use information in a discriminating and effective way.
Our computing curriculum, with our more recent emphasis on programming, enables children to develop their problem solving and reasoning abilities. It enables children to understand and apply the essential principles and concepts of Computer Science, including logic, algorithms and data representation, analyse problems in computational term, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.
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. We provide a range of opportunities for our children to exhibit that they are digitally literate, such as taking part in the Vex Go Robotics competition held annually as Nissan, Washington.
We provide a range of opportunities for our children to exhibit that they are digitally literate, such as taking part in Vex Go Robotics competition held annually at Nissan, Washington.
“I’m happy I got to go to the VexGo tournament again and beat my score from last year. Racing robots is fun and I would definitely want to work with technology in the future.” – Heidi, Year 6
“I’ve enjoyed using Scratch for coding in Year4. I like that I can control my character and design games.” – Ashton, Year 4
“I can type my name really quickly and use the iPads to play lots of maths and spelling games.” – Arthur, Year 2
