Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World
Subject Key Objective Progression & Development by Year Groups
The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.
All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
The curriculum is designed with our pupils and the Swinemoor community in mind.
It enables children to access and enhance their understanding of their home, their town and the wider community, developing their cultural capital and giving them opportunities and choices about their future and their impact as they progress through their school career and beyond.
This will help them become successful members of modern British society, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities.
Computing – Using Technology
EYFS: “Children recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as homes and schools.”
KS1: “Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school”
KS2: “Use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content”
EYFS:
Technology (T1)
Tablet (T1)
Desktop (T1)
KS1:
Search Engine (T2)
Programming (T2)
Robotics (T1)
KS2:
Content (T2)
Malware (T3)
Cookies (T3)
In the context of using search technology and retrieval of digital content, children may be able to describe a range of uses of technology in both a professional and personal capacity.
They may be able to describe the history of technological advancement, and the impact that has had on a social and economic level.
Children may be able to demonstrate some understanding of the impact of technology on globalisation, and the life chances offered through proficiency in computing.
What will be made, produced, performed, or published?
Children will use the technology available to produce a piece of work related to the appropriate curriculum strand.
This may be in the form of a research paper or in a less formal project using a range of appropriate technology to produce a finished piece of work.
What knowledge will the children have embedded?
In the context of using search technology and the retrieval of digital context, children will be able to explain how technology is used in different environments, such as their immediate experiences and later on in the wider world.
They will be able to select technology appropriate for different purposes, and talk about how technology is used in different professions and the impact on globalisation, and how it will help in the future.
What retention may be demonstrated?
Here are some example questions that may be used to assess children’s understanding.
EYFS: What technology do you have at school? What could you use a tablet for?
KS1: Can you think of any jobs where using a search engine would be useful? How could you use technology to help in [situation]?
KS2: How could you use technology to help find out about [topic]? What are the risks of malware, and how could you prepare and mitigate for it?
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Foundation:
Children recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as homes and schools. Children select and use a range of technology for particular purposes.
Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 1:
Children can select appropriately from a basic range of technology when given a task.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 2:
Children are able to give examples of technology used in a range of occupations, beyond school life.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 3:
Children begin to use search engines with support to effectively research given subjects.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 4:
Children confidently use search engines to support research, understanding the use of key words and search functions.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 5:
Children use search technologies effectively, appreciating how results are selected and ranked in order to develop their research.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Year 6:
Children use search technologies effectively, appreciating how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content.
Computing – Using Technology in the Wider World – Mastery:
Children confidently use search technologies effectively, with a developed and detailed understanding of how search engines function and rank selections. They are able to explain with confidence how to discern and evaluate digital content, including giving real world examples.
This collection of short films and resources will help you understand your child’s progression through school.
The curriculum film resource has been broken down by subject area initially and then by topic area.
