Welcome to Computing at Holly Hill

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Subject Intent

General Statement
At Holly Hill we believe that a quality Computing curriculum should be broad and balanced across a range of subjects and equip all learners including those from disadvantaged groups to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.

The Computing curriculum at Holly Hill enables children to become effective, creative, and positive citizens in a digital world. Computer science is the foundation of the Computing curriculum, where the principles of how digital technology works will be taught, alongside the practical experience of programming. Information technology enables the children to apply their knowledge, skills, and approaches to purposefully create and make digital content. We aim to empower the children through digital literacy to become balanced, resilient, and responsible members of the community. This will allow them to be able to use and express themselves, develop their ideas, make informative decisions through information and communication technology.

Through our Computing curriculum we make links to our whole school curriculum intent statement. The aspects which are particularly significant to Computing are:

• Preparation for adult life and work
• Balance of knowledge and skills
• Emotional well-being and healthy relationships
• Experiences and opportunities

Specific Aims

The National Curriculum outlines the following aims for Computing:

• Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms, and data representation.
• Can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.
• Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.
• Are responsible, competent, confident, and creative users of information and communication technology.

Computing Special Events