Curriculum - Computing
Hernhill Church of England Primary School has universal ambitions for every child, whatever their background or circumstances. Teachers are knowledgeable of and incorporate the Mainstream Core Standards to ensure all children learn and thrive at Hernhill.
We understand the immense value technology plays not only in supporting the Computing and whole school curriculum but overall in the day-to-day life of our school. We believe that technology can provide enhanced collaborative learning opportunities, better engagement of children, easier access to rich content, support conceptual understanding of new concepts and can support the needs of all our children. The substantive knowledge in computing is understanding how to use technology, how to be safe and knowing how to program. As a school, we have chosen the Purple Mash Computing Scheme of Work. The scheme of work supports our teachers in delivering fun and engaging lessons which help to raise standards and allow all children to achieve their full potential.
Online safety has a high profile at Hernhill and is taught through a relevant up-to-date online safety curriculum which is progressive from Early Years to the end of Year 6; and is mapped to the UK Education for a Connected World Framework.
CURRICULUM APPROACH
Across the school, we deliver many of the curriculum areas using a thematic approach. We deliver the National Curriculum content with science, history or geography being the key drivers for a topic with the subjects of art, design technology, music, computing and PSHE added to enrich the topic. RE, PE, MFL and maths are taught as separate subjects.
We operate a two-year rolling programme of topics with some topics in Year A and some in Year B. This enables year groups and teachers to work together on a similar theme. Our school’s Christian values are interwoven into each topic. Every term, each class also have a "Big Question" to ponder on.
Teachers follow a clear planning structure for our theme-led curriculum. Curriculum guides are produced to ensure the correct National Curriculum coverage and to outline the key learning questions/enquiries for each term or half term.
ONLINE SAFETY
At Hernhill CE Primary School, we take online safety extremely seriously. It is the right of all children to feel safe and secure when using technology.
Our website has online safety advice for parents and children. Click here to visit the page.
Online safety policy