Computing | St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School

“The internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language” – James H Clark

“Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society” – Kent Conrad

What does Computing look like at St. Bernadette’s?

Our Computing curriculum aims to teach children about the purpose and safe usage of technology and the Internet, and to begin to prepare them for a future centred around technology and digital information. Our pupils will explore practical applications of computing, developing their creativity, problem solving skills and an understanding of their online presence. Children are encouraged to explore new programs and technologies, share ideas and support each other in their learning. Children will use their digital literacy skills to manipulate desktop publishing programs, learn to code through block coding and codable devices. Computing lends itself well to cross curricular links, particularly with RSHE, mathematics, science, and design and technology. Children will explore aspects of computing across the subjects taught at St. Bernadette’s through photography, recording and presenting data.

At St. Bernadette's, we predominantly use Purple Mash as a means of accessing the curriculum and children are encouraged to use the site at home. In KS2, each class is given a Microsoft Office program as part of their Information Technology unit.

Computing Documents

Computing Overview 2024/25

Updated: 14/09/2024 130 KB

Computing Policy 2024

Updated: 14/09/2024 153 KB

Online Safety Policy 2024

Updated: 14/09/2024 215 KB

Computing Programmes of Study 2014

Updated: 04/08/2022 109 KB

Progression of Computing Skills

Updated: 04/08/2022 78 KB

Progression of Computing Vocabulary

Updated: 04/08/2022 80 KB

Our School's Subscribed Sites

Our subscribed sites (details should be in your child’s diary)

STOP THE PRESS!!!

Check out Year 3's magazine covers from our Digital Media unit in Computing. The children have applied all their skills from this unit to create these amazing and eye-catching covers.

Skills applied: editing templates (placeholders and colour), inserting texts and images, editing text (font, size, orientation and colour) and editing images (size, orientation and cropping).

Yr3:MagazineCovers

Reception: coding floor bots

Reception have been learning about controlling programmable devices. The children have practised programming floor bots (robot mice and BeeBots) with an algorithm to move the robot to different locations on the map. They have identified errors in code, made corrections and talked about the success of their algorithm.

Computing: Animations

Check out some of Year 3's Animation work! Similar to Wallace and Gromit, Year 3 have been developing their understanding of stop-motion animation to create their own short animations using Playdough.