ICT curriculum
Here are some KS1 children learning programming skills by using Beebots!
**The New Computing Curriculum**
As of September 2014, the ICT curriculum has been replaced by the new 'Computing Curriculum', which places a new emphasis on programming and debugging. For more information about these changes, click here.
At St Teresa's we are starting to follow a new scheme of work to help us teach this subject, called 'Switched on Computing'.
Switched on Computing includes six flexible units for each year group covering:
- Programming
- Computational thinking
- Creativity
- Computer networks
- Communication and collaboration
- Productivity
Below you can see an overview of the scheme and the units for each year group. However, since the new computing curriculum is vastly different in content to the old curriculum, all of the KS2 classes will be starting with the Year 3 scheme of work, progressing to the Year 4 scheme of work the following year and so on. In this way, we hope that all of the children at St Teresa's will build up a solid understanding of computing.
ICT links
Click on the picture below to play some games to help you improve your ICT skills!
Guide to 'Coding'
To sample the kind of computer programming that your children will be doing, try out the 'Hour of Code'. This leads you through the process of creating your own computer programme, with handy tutorials! Just click below to begin!
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Scratch
To download the free 'Scratch' program, which forms the basis for a lot of the programming work in KS2, click the link below.
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