FPC Hub Leader:

Lianne Jones is the Acting Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) at Sandgate Primary School. Having worked at the school for over 20 years, Lianne has taught across all year groups and has a specialism in the Early Years and has also previously been the SENDCO. Her role as DSL means that she leads on online safety across the school, ensuring all children are prepared for living in the modern world and using technology to do this. 

Lianne is an advocate for the Early Years, achieving a masters degree in this area and has led on the development of the EYFS curriculum in which children learn and develop in a way which recognises the importance of high quality play and interactions. Lianne is a strong believer that outdoor learning is crucial as children progress through their education and time in primary school. 

 

Curriculum Vision: Computing

The aim of the Computing curriculum at Sandgate Primary is to progressively build knowledge, such that all pupils are supported to know more and do more as they move through the school, on to secondary education and into later life. The curriculum is designed around both substantive and disciplinary concepts to ensure that all pupils successfully learn the discipline of Computing, along with the practical and theoretical knowledge that comprises the subject. The curriculum is supported by rigorous assessment approaches that accord all pupils the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do, whilst allowing gaps to be identified and addressed without impacting negatively on learning.

 

Substantive Threads: Computing

Each unit within the Computing curriculum at Sandgate, supported by Kapow Primary, is designed to progressively develop the following practical and theoretical strands of substantive knowledge:

• Advancements in the Digital World: how technological advancements have affected change in our daily lives.
• Computer Science: how computers and computer systems work and how they are designed and programmed. Computer Science units cover programming units alongside units such as understanding how a school network and the internet works.
• Information Technology: using a wide range of products and software to plan, develop and create a variety of media.
• Digital Literacy: understanding why you are choosing to use something for a particular purpose and implications.
• Online Safety: how to be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

 

Disciplinary Threads: Computing

Each unit within the Computing curriculum at Sandgate, supported by Kapow Primary, is designed to progressively develop children’s knowledge of the discipline of Computing. Units have been organised around developing this in the following areas:

• The impact of computing: how computers support the development of other subject areas such as a science, mathematics and statistics. 
• Programming: how programmers use technology to perform their role as a creator.
• Daily use: how adults and children choose and take control of their use of computers, including their awareness of online safety.

 

Curriculum Documents: Computing

 

An overview of the Computing curriculum can be found here

 

 

 

A sample of the school curriculum for Computing can be found here

 

 

 

A sample of the school assessment for Computing can be found here