Computing is taught throughout every year group at John Hellins Primary School. Often, it is planned and taught discreetly within each class’s termly project. This means lessons will likely link into each child’s current topic of learning. In order to ensure all children are provided with a thorough and progressive computing education, each year group has been assigned a theme for teachers to structure their computing lessons around. This ensures that all objectives from the national curriculum are met and that learning is challenging, exciting and taught to a high standard by confident teachers. 

Within school we have a range of inclusive technology resources and equipment to support children with their computing lessons. The resources include pupil laptops for the whole class (where children can access programming sites, such as Scratch and Chrome Music Lab), iPads with a vast range of apps to use, class sets of Kindles in Key Stage 2, BeeBots, Lego software and MakeyMakey, just to name a few!

Online safety (or e-safety) is a huge part of the computing curriculum – our aim is for all children to appreciate the benefits of the online world, as well as educating them on the risks or potential dangers. Therefore, e-safety lessons are taught both within computing and PSHE lessons.

It is our aim for every computing lesson to be engaging, practical and well-structured. This will prepare and educate our pupils for their life outside of John Hellins Primary School.