At Monks Risborough CE Primary School, we understand the immense value that technology plays not only in supporting the Computing and whole school curriculum but overall in the day-to-day life of our school. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for Computing whilst also providing enhanced collaborative learning opportunities, engagement in rich content and supporting pupil’s conceptual understanding of new concepts which support the needs of all our pupils.

Our Computing curriculum aims to develop the heart and mind of every child. Computing teaching at Monks has links with mathematics, science and design and technology and our aim is to provide a broad and balanced curriculum whilst ensuring that pupils become digitally literate and digitally resilient. Technology is ever evolving and we aim to develop pupils who can use and express themselves, develop their ideas through information and communication technology at a suitable level for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.

The aims of our Computing curriculum are to develop pupils who:

- Are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

- Know how to keep themselves safe whilst using technology and on the internet and be able to minimise risk to themselves and others.

- Become responsible, respectful and competent users of data, information and communication technology.

- Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

- Can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.

- Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.

- Become digitally literate and are active participants in a digital world.

- Are equipped with the capability to use technology throughout their lives.

- Understand the importance of governance and legislation regarding how information is used, stored, created, retrieved, shared and manipulated.

- Have a ‘can do’ attitude when engaging with technology and its associated resources.

- Utilise computational thinking beyond the Computing curriculum.

- Understand and follow the SMART E-Safety rules.

- Understand the E-Safety messages that can keep them safe online.

- Know who to contact if they have concerns.

- Apply their learning in a range of contexts, e.g. at school and at home.