Young people at Bluecoat get a rich experience which will help them develop their own identity and grow into informed, active citizens, with a sense of agency on computing matters.

Our curriculum ensures children are taught to be safe and confident explorers of the online world.

We have embedded and amended the ‘Barefoot Computing’ curriculum to suit our setting, enriching this further with Project Evolve to further our learning on e-safety. Our ‘Bluecoat Computing Curriculum’ is taught across the three recognised strands of Computing:

• • Computer Science

  • Information Technology

  • Digital Literacy (which includes e-safety)

The units for key stages 1 and 2 are based on a spiral curriculum. This means that each of the strands is revisited regularly (each term for each year group), and pupils revisit each strand through a new unit that consolidates and builds on prior learning.

Teaching will focus on a unit of work for several weeks at a time, with an element of e-safety incorporated every week.

Pupils will develop a range of programming and technological skills that are transferable to other curriculum areas. As pupils progress through KS1 and KS2, children will become increasingly confident in:

• • The application of their digital skills

  • Becoming increasingly efficient and effective communicators, collaborators and analysts

  • Showing imagination and creativity in their use of computing  in different aspects of their learning and life beyond school

  • Internet safety  and the risks involved when using the internet

The computing curriculum will  ensure pupils have the knowledge and skills needed in a society where technologies and trends are rapidly evolving. Pupils leaving in year 6 will be prepared for the transition to secondary with an understanding of how to safeguard themselves as technology becomes a larger part of their lives.