Digital Leaders
At Wincanton Primary School we have recently employed Digital Leaders! Our Digital Leaders are a group of children who have taken on a role with a variety of responsibilities. These include: keeping our Computing equipment in order, ensuring all of the technological devices are maintained and raising awareness on how to stay safe on the Internet.
Our Digital Leaders are busy promoting Internet Safety and are about to launch a competition that will raise awareness throughout the school on how to stay safe when online.
Stay tuned to find out how the competition goes, in the meantime please take time to browse this website which is linked below for parents.
Intent
At Wincanton Primary School, we recognise that technology is an integral part of everyday life. The intent of our computing curriculum is to prepare our children for a future that is being increasingly transformed by technology. We encourage children to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence that they need to be able to become digitally literate. We aspire our children to become creative, curious and logical and become safe, responsible and competent learners. We do this through a combination of both cross-curricular and specific skills-based lessons.
The core skills of computing are taught through discrete lessons across the year groups. However, other elements of the computing curriculum are integrated into the curriculum as part of learning experiences. We recognise that children need to learn how to stay safe online and we develop this awareness on a regular basis through whole class Internet Safety lessons each half term and also by participating in the annual Safer Internet Days. Our next Safer Internet Day is on Tuesday 11th February 2025.
As a school, we know that technology is a significant part of our everyday life and will continue to be a core part of education. Therefore, ensuring that all our pupils grow into responsible digital citizens who are able to use technology purposefully and safely is of upmost importance to us. With this in mind, we have introduced Digital Leaders at our school. The Digital Leaders are responsible for ensuring pupils in all classes at our school recognise ways to keep safe when online. They work together to help educate their peers about online dangers, types of cyberbullying and ways to respond to unkind behaviour when using social media. Additionally, they are responsible for ensuring the Computing equipment is organised, well-looked after and accessible for everyone.
Implement
At Wincanton Primary School we aspire to share an enjoyment of using Computing across our curriculum. We want our pupils to become competent and confident in choosing and using the appropriate applications. Having regular computing sessions whereby the children will use their own initiative working both independently and in co-operation will allow the children to have the ability to apply computing skills to real life problems and tasks. For example, a handling data session on scratch and making links to a real life situation.
Impact
The impact of our Computing curriculum builds on prior knowledge and children understand the capabilities and limitations of Computing and the consequences of its use. The use of knowledge checkers, quizzes and Big Questions are showing the children’s progress and their understanding of their own learning and knowledge development and through the use of working with technology across all areas of the curriculum they are capable of using a range of technological devices confidently.
STEM Concepts
Wincanton Primary School has introduced STEM concepts that will link to each computing lesson. The concepts are:
Hypothesis
This involves the children being able to guide research and make appropriate predictions based on the scenario they have been given.
Function and Purpose
The children will then progress on to testing this hypothesis and evaluate the purpose of an item and recognise what modifications need to be made, if they were to complete the activity again.
Conclusion
This part of the STEM, involves the children being able to explain what has happened and use their results to understand what has happened and why.