The teaching of computing at Laurel Avenue Community Primary, is designed to aid teachers to help pupils build a computing schema within their long-term memories. Rather than memorising isolated facts, building a strong computing schema enables pupils to organise knowledge in a meaningful way.
As a school we map
• Breadth of study - the topics the pupils will study
• Threshold concepts - the big ideas in computing that pupils will explore through every topic (code, connect, communicate and collect).
• Milestones - the goals that pupils should reach to show they are meeting the expectations of the curriculum.
Milestones are the goals that pupils are aiming for; through developing a strong schema based on knowledge, vocabulary and tasks pupils progress through the milestones.
Classrooms are resourced with interactive whiteboards. All pupils in KS2 access their own laptop and either their own iPad or tablet; EYFS and KS1 pupils have access to laptops and iPads all of which are used to enhance pupils' learning.