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Millom Infant School
Every child a learner, we all learn together
Computing
Our Vision
Millom Infant School delivers the CUSP Computing curriculum to ensure our pupils can thrive in an increasing digital world. Pupils learn the principles and develop the skills to create their own applications. We want our pupils to create meaningful projects throughout their time and have ownership over what they create.
Our Aims
- To develop children’s confidence in using a range of technology
- To encourage children to become independent and responsible users of technology, recognising opportunities and risks and using strategies to stay safe online
- To enable children to use and apply their computing knowledge, skills and understanding confidently in their learning and in everyday contexts, transferring these skills across other areas of the curriculum
- To provide pupils with the skills they need to and an awareness of how technology can help them
- To enable children to recognise that computing affects the way in which people live and work safely
- To develop the understanding of how to use computing safely and responsibly
Our Curriculum
Early Years
Reception follow the objectives from the Technology strand of the Early Years Foundation stage Curriculum. Technology plays a key role in all areas of the children’s development, helping them to make sense of the world around them and their life experiences. Technology also plays a role in supporting early communication, language and literacy and is where the children begin their journey in becoming ‘digitally literate.’ It is essential for our children to learn about technology and its role in the world in which we live. The children have access to a variety of resources such as interactive whiteboards, BeeBots and iPads, allowing children to explore their own ideas of computing and technology through play. They also use a variety of apps to enhance their learning, which they use independently as they reach their Early Learning Goals.
Key Stage 1
In Key Stage 1, our children build on the basic skills they gained in the Early Years Foundation Stage. They are introduced to the purposes of different programs. The children are encouraged to utilise their computational thinking through implementing coding, debugging and algorithms as well as build their own mazes and animated stories. Online safety is at the forefront of learning in Key Stage 1 with children learning when and how to report inappropriate content as well as being taught about the safe sharing of information online. Children learn how to search the internet effectively and safely to support them in their learning