Cultural Capital
The National Curriculum explains that learning a high-quality computing education ‘equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world’. It also states that computing has ‘deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems’
Throughout their time at Greasbrough, children will be provided with opportunities to become more culturally aware, using their home environment, school and local area, with pupils becoming effective communicators. We aim for by the end of primary school, pupils are confident and clear communicators who are able to articulate their views and opinions in a range of situations, thus enabling them to become responsible citizens who enhance the community they live in. With our firm belief that knowledge is transferable, we make cross-curricular links between English, maths and computing. Our STEM curriculum allows children to practise these skills across different areas of the curriculum.
At Greasbrough, we have designed a computing curriculum, which is designed to give all pupils, particularly the disadvantaged, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. Computational thinking is at the core of our computing curriculum, developing concepts such as logic, problem solving and collaboration.
Digital safety is embedded in our curriculum, providing our pupils the essential knowledge and tools that will enable all pupils to be confident, competent and responsible members of the digital world. As well as providing opportunities that excite and enthuse pupils within computing, giving them a curiosity of new technology in the world around them. We want every child in our school to be digitally literate in order to enable them to keep pace with the dynamic world of technology.