Computing and Online Safety
Intent:
Be the best we can be now and in our futures: equipping children with strong skills, knowledge, computational thinking for an ever- changing digital world
Ambition for all: ensuring that no child’s circumstances define their outcomes: we believe every child can develop and thrive when using technology with the right support
Nurture a healthy mind, body and soul: Fostering a love of technology. e-safety is at the heart of all computing lessons
Develop a crew mentality for our school, the Rock Ferry community and our world: develop an appreciation of difference, identity and shared human experiences throughout the digital world
Implement:
To put our intent into action, we plan at three levels: long-term, medium-term, short-term. We use Connected Curriculum (Hi Impact) scheme in Y1 – Y6 to support the subject knowledge of our subject leader and class teachers at each stage of planning:
Long-Term: Our subject leader maps out what children should learn in each unit throughout school. This is mapped out by our subject leader because they see the bigger picture of Computing across the school, ensuring your child is taught everything required of the Early Years Framework and National Curriculum. In Early Years, early foundations for Computing are taught within real life experiences in Continuous Provision e.g digital cameras, phones and programmable toys.
Our subject leader carefully considers the order content is taught across school so that what your child learns makes sense year on year. We deliberately plan opportunities to return to key ideas throughout your child’s time at Rock Ferry so your child can build lasting memory and deepen their understanding each time they return to a key concept.
Medium-Term: Teachers use the long-term plan to know what they need to teach. At the medium-term planning phase, they carefully consider the sequence of learning within a unit of work so that knowledge builds logically and gives children opportunity to return to ideas, apply them and refine their understanding.
Short-Term: Your child’s teacher plans each lesson for the learning sequence, considering how best to teach the content set out in the long-term and medium-term plans so that it sticks. When planning lessons, your child’s class teacher will consider the needs of your child and the class they are in. This may mean returning to ideas they have struggled to grasp in earlier lessons or putting adaptations in place to ensure everyone can access the lesson such as word banks, writing slopes and scaffolded responses.
Impact:
To ensure children have learned what we have intended them to, teachers regularly plan small tasks within lessons that lets them see what your child has understood. This allows them to respond to your child’s need if they haven’t understood a key idea. This may be offering support or re-teaching within the lesson or adapting the following lesson plans to address bigger misconceptions.
Subject leaders and senior leaders regularly speak to children to see what they have remembered, look at their learning to check the quality of their work and visit lessons. We use this information to review the quality of our curriculum and identify any areas where we could make it even better.
E-Safety
What is E-Safety?
E-Safety encompasses Internet technologies and electronic communications such as mobile phones as well as collaboration tools and personal publishing. It highlights the need to educate pupils about the benefits and risks of using technology and provides safeguards and awareness for users to enable them to control their online experience.
The Schools' e-Safety Policy reflects the need to raise awareness of the safety issues associated with electronic communications as a whole.
E-Safety depends on effective practice at a number of levels:
Responsible ICT use by all staff and students; encouraged by education and made explicit through published policies.
Sound implementation of e-safety policy in both administration and curriculum, including secure school network design and use.
Safe and secure internet provision.
Think U Know - click on the link below
Here you can find the latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobile phones and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it. There are resources you can use at home as well. Most importantly, there’s also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online.
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