At St. Helen’s CE Primary School, we believe our computing curriculum provides children with a high-quality computing education that will equip them with computational thinking skills, provide opportunities to apply computing skills in various digital contexts and enable them to become active participants in the digital world.  We recognise that technology is a part of children’s everyday lives, and it is important in the ever-changing world of technology for children to engage in positive experiences as they use technology to express themselves, both as tools for learning and as a means to drive their generation forward into the future.

Through high quality teaching, we develop the following essential characteristics of technology users:

• To use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
• To engage in computational thinking in order to solve computer science problems involving algorithms and networks.
• To engage in positive online experiences as technology is used for children to express themselves, both as a tool for learning and as a means to drive their generation forward into the future.
• For children to understand the advantages and disadvantages associated with online experiences and are aware of measures that can be taken to keep themselves and others safe.
• A genuine interest in the subject and the ability to be able to apply the skills learnt to the ever-evolving technology world we live in