“The most important skill for a computer scientist is problem solving. Even if you don’t know all the details of the technology you are using, if you can solve the problem, you can figure out how to do it.”

Bill Gates

National Curriculum

A high-quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with mathematics, science and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems. The core of computing is 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. Computing also ensures that pupils become digitally literate – able to use, and 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.

Mission statement

At Fairfield Road Primary School, we strive to deliver a high-quality computing curriculum which allows our pupils to recognise the significance of digital technology in their everyday lives. We explicitly teach pupils the skills and knowledge they need to become creative, digitally literate, computational thinkers.

Our ambition at Fairfield Road is to offer a rich computing curriculum that allows our children to:

• Develop their ability to apply their digital literacy capability to support their use of language and communication skills
• Develop their digital literacy capability and understand the importance of information and how to select and prepare it
• Develop their computational thinking – the ability to solve problems in a creative, logical and collaborative way – which is developed through repeated programming opportunities and opportunities to build understanding and apply the concepts of computer science
• Become responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology
• Explore their attitudes towards computing, its value for themselves, others and society and their awareness of its advantages, risks and limitations
• Develop skills involved in computer science, digital literacy and information technology
• Grow an awareness of how technology is used in the world around them and of the benefits that it provides
• Communicate and collaborate in order to develop understanding of the purposes for using technology
• Engage imaginatively and widen their learning opportunities
• Develop an understanding of how to use technology safely and the risks associated

Computing at Fairfield Road

Take a look at our programming journey from Year 1 to 6.