St Paul's Catholic Primary School

At our school we want pupils to recognise that technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in throughout our students' lives. Therefore, we want to model and educate our pupils on how to use technology positively, responsibly and safely. We want our pupils to understand that there is always a choice with using technology and as a school we use technology to model positive use. We recognise that the best prevention for a lot of issues we currently see with technology/social media is through education. Building our knowledge in this subject will allow pupils to effectively demonstrate their learning through creative use of technology. We recognise that technology can allow pupils to share their learning in creative ways. We also understand the accessibility opportunities technology can provide for our pupils. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible. We want our pupils to be fluent with a range of tools to best express their understanding and hope by Upper Key Stage 2, children have the independence and confidence to choose the best tool to fulfil the task and challenge set by teachers.

Implementation and impact:

Here at St Paul’s we use Purple Mash as our main platform to teach the children the knowledge and skills they will need to support them in the world. It is important that the children experience a range of topics to support them when they leave school.  Computing is also taught through using cross curricular links as we feel it is important that children see computing as all-encompassing not just a standalone lesson, an example of this is the use of Learning by Question platform we use in our maths learning. Technology is forever changing and it is important that we equip our children as much as possible to be able to keep up with the changes. To support children with this we use both Chrome books and ipads.

Here is a link to our website address for Purple Mash - https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stpaulsen7

We are committed to try and prepare our children for a future where technology is going to be a vital part of life. As a result we have joined the Computing Quality Framework. 

As we progress through each topic we will be learning new skills and vocabulary. You can find these here. 

The attached document show the topics taught in each year and how our knowledge will develop.

Here at St Paul's we believe it is important for children to experience a range of activities and have opportunities that they may not always get. As a result we have a wow calendar which shows events, special days etc to do with computing, that are more than just meeting the curriculum. 

We also have a computing club that runs on a Friday after school