ICT
At Whiston Worrygoose, we foster a culture of curiosity and inquiry among our learners. Our ICT curriculum encourages students to ask questions and explore for answers. Through our ICT curriculum, we aim to ignite a fascination with the world around them and equip them with the skills to understand and interpret their learning to different context. At Whiston Worrygoose Primary School we believe ICT plays a vital role in supporting children within our ‘new’ digital world. We are committed to exposing children to hands-on experiences and purposeful opportunities so they are able to apply it to their future career paths and life ambitions. We prepare children with digital skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and technology-driven world. We envision a learning environment where students harness the power of technology to innovate, communicate, and solve complex problems. Pupils are challenge to ask questions, seek anomalies and gain a deeper understanding of
communication and the correspondence between devices. The structure of our ICT curriculum aims to build pupils’ digital literacy, supporting children to understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science whilst analysing problems in computational terms, and evaluate and apply this to information technology.
Our goal is for the children to become responsible, competent, confident and creative citizens within school and our community.
Please take a look at some our ICT content...
Please watch the video below of our ICT Lead Miss Wagstaff as she explains just some of the ways ICT is encorporated into our learning...
INTENT
We align our goals with the National Curriculum, pinpointing essential knowledge and skills to empower children to excel in their educational journey.We want to ensure our quality of education is exceptional to allow pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with all areas of the cross-curricular learning subjects, as a pedagogical tool to support our learners. We want the core of computing
curriculum to be computer science, in which pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming. Building on this knowledge and understanding, pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content. We also want our pupils to express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.
This means a high focus on keeping safe online in our curriculum and an understanding of how to use ICT
responsibly.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our curriculum aids children in gaining a coherent knowledge and understanding of how the technology works. Children are encouraged to work logically and analyse situations or programs methodically with exploration and apply it to block –based and script programming languages such as Scratch or simple coding languages like Python and scripts. We challenge children to bring learning experiences to life by engaging them through interactive multimedia,
virtual simulations and creative digital tools, fostering active participation and deep understanding. We do this by teaching children to combine both procedural knowledge and practical skills. This also includes applying multiple tools to present data and representation, produce algorithms whilst decoding bugs within a program, dissecting components
of a computer to understand its purpose and showcase digital media and imagery through different programs within ICT. Therefore throughout our curriculum we sequence the learning into blocks throughout the year, so that children are exposed to all these opportunities. In each aspect of this, teachers focus on technological knowledge and conceptual understanding in order for children to make sense of the world. We support children by helping them to
access quality technology such as Ipads, chrome books and VR headsets. All of our Curriculum Unit Plans have been carefully planned to ensure children are receiving high-quality lessons with meaningful learning opportunities which will stay with the children throughout their lives.
IMPACT
By the end of their primary education at Whiston Worrygoose, our learners will have gained a rich body of technological knowledge and a wide range of transferable skills, which they can apply to other subjects and contexts. We assess on a regular basis during learning however the overview of assessment is gathered in the children end product where they prepare and create an end product using practical opportunities, discussions, games and presentations. This enables teachers to set appropriate, progressive targets and challenge children in their thinking and learning. We aspire for children to leave our school being able to reason, interpret, predict, analyse, critically evaluate and be responsible. We measure our impact based on pupils’ confidence to ask and explore questions to further their own technological knowledge and understanding. They will be inquisitive young learners and citizens who choose to understand the world around them.
