Autumn - Invasion.

During the Autumn term children will be taught two topics; Online Safety and Effective Searching. 

The online safety units within the Computing Scheme of Work provide in-depth coverage of computing related online safety aspects.  This will also be covered through the children’s PSHE learning.

This unit builds upon the skills and knowledge developed in Year 2 in Unit 2.5 – Effective Searching. The lesson makes use of the Google search engine but could be adapted to be used with an alternative.

Spring - Misty Mountain, Winding river.

This topic has two units of computing; Coding and Writing for Different Audiences. 

The coding lessons in these units are structured around the PRIMM approach. The whole approach may take place during a lesson or series of lessons. Predict… what this code will do Run… the code to check your prediction Investigate… trace thought the code to see if you were correct Modify... the code to add detail, change actions/outcome Make… a new program that uses the same ideas in a different way. 

In this unit, children learn that technology can be used to organise, reorganise, develop, and explore ideas, and that working with information in this way can aid understanding. It also gives children opportunities to discuss their experiences of using ICT and how it is used in the wider world.

Summer - Ancient Civilisations. 

The two topics for the summer are as follows; Logo and Spreadsheets. 

In the logo unit they will learn common commands and constructs of the Logo programming language.

As well as  developing their ability to compose algorithms for drawing mathematical structures and turn these into Logo code.

The spreadsheet unit, children will learn hot to design a graph to solve a mathematical problem. Children will present, format and analyse their data and information in a variety of ways and use their spreadsheets to solve and check mathematical problems and concepts.