Computing

Aureus Primary School's aim is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about Computing. Learning skills in Computing, including coding, programming and debugging, is essential for our children to develop given that technology plays such a significant role in daily life. This includes home lives and professional lives. The intention is that pupils will feel able and encouraged to continue studying Computing beyond Key Stage 2 and ultimately be working towards using their technological skills to good effect.

We use the Kapow curriculum to deliver computing across the school. This is a 'spiral' curriculum, with key skills and techniques revisited repeatedly with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.  

The scheme covers all the national curriculum requirements and more, ensuring that children become confident in their use of computers as well as learning to understand and generate algorithms and code.  Online safety is also an incredibly important part of the scheme and is taught in each year group.