The Computing Curriculum at Cuddington

Cuddington will “Bring out the Best” in our pupils by providing a language rich and diverse experience both within and beyond the classroom. Our flexible approach enables everyone to thrive personally and academically, overcome challenges and prepare them for lifelong learning. 

This is reflected in our curriculum approach to learning Computing, using the aims set out in Development Matters (2021) and the National Curriculum (2014) as frameworks for how we map content, ensure progression in knowledge and sequence our units of work.  

Intent, Implementation, Impact

Cuddington will bring out the best by providing a language rich and diverse experience both within and beyond the classroom. Our approach enables everyone to thrive personally and academically, overcome challenges and to prepare them for lifelong learning. Computing at Cuddington will enable children to go on a journey where they are consistently developing their computational skills which enable them to feel confident with applying these in their own lives. Cuddington Primary School use high quality resources from Purple Mash for KS1 and KS2 and have developed a comprehensive curriculum that meets the needs of our children. It provides the right balance between substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge, which supports teaching, learning and assessment. 

Learning is purposeful and follows a clear progression of skills which enables children to use and apply these to solve and debug computational models and programmes. The key computational thinking skills of: Think, Do, Test Debug, will help the children problem solve. 

To strengthen children’s development of skills in computing, children will be given a range of opportunities to use technologies across a variety of different contexts.   

KS1 and KS2 Curriculum Overview