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Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Believe to Achieve! "Roots will grow down into God's love and keep us strong" EPH 3:17

Computing

Subject Leader Mrs A Gaffney & Mr C Foster
Contact Details uppersite@brinkworthearldanbys.wilts.sch.uk for the attention of the Computing Subject Leader
Mission Sentence At Brinkworth Earl Danby's School we believe that developing and embedding computing and digital literacy skills is essential in an ever-changing world. We believe that "a high quality computing education is the pen and paper or our time and is the lens through which we experience our world." (David Warlick).
Inspiring Quotes
  • A computer is like a violin.” You can imagine it making beautiful music, but you have to learn how to play it” (Bill Gates)
  • Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind (Donald Knuth)
  • Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.” (Albert Einstein)

Curriculum Overview

 

Term One

Online safety

Computing systems and networks

Term Two

 

 

Creating Media

Term Three

 

 

Programming A

Term Four

 

 

Data and Information

Term Five

 

 

Creating Media

Term Six

 

 

Programming B

YR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y1

Staying SMART online

Technology around us

Digital Painting

Moving a robot

Grouping data

Digital Writing

Programming animations

Y2

You be the judge

 IT around us

Digital photography

Robot algorithms

Pictograms

Digital Music

Programming Quizzes

Y3/4

A:  What is cyberbullying

Connecting computers

Animation

 

 

Sequencing sound

 

Word processing

Desktop publishing

Events and actions in programs

B:  Safely send and receive emails

Online searchers and surfers

Stop frame animation

Programming turtle, Logo and Scratch

Branching databases

Photo editing

Programming Turtle Logo

Y4/5

A: Too Much Information?

The Internet

Audio production

Flowol

Data logging

3D modelling - SketchUp

Scratch – developing games

B:  Online safety story planning

Communication and collaboration

Video production

Repetition in shapes

Word processing

Introduction to vector graphics

Repetition in games

Y5/6

A: Strong passwords

Systems and searching

Radio station

Variables in games

Flat file databases

Film making

Sensing movement

B: SMART bots

 

Communication and collaboration

Web page creation

Selection in physical computing

Spreadsheets

3D Modelling

Selection in quizzes

 

Some people who inspire us in the area of computing... 

Alan Turing (1912 – 1954)

 

 

Bill Gates (b. 1955)

 

 

Margaret Hamilton (b. 1936)

 

 

 

 

Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955)

 

 

 

Grace Hopper (1906 – 1992)

 

 

Annie Easley (1933 – 2011)