About Cambridge Primary Computing (0059)
Our Computing curriculum helps young learners to understand how computer devices work. Learners have the opportunity to:
- investigate how individual components are joined together to form functioning systems and networks
- use computational thinking to create precise sets of instruction and to break down complex problems into smaller, simpler steps
- write short computer programs, using a fun and accessible programming language, to discover how logical sets of instruction can be given to a computer.
Learners are encouraged to think like a computer. In doing this, they understand that logic and precision underpin how computers work. They develop their own logical thinking skills and apply these to other areas of their learning.
This curriculum explains how computers are used to gather, store, sort and represent data within spreadsheets and other databases. Learners consider how data is transferred between devices and how the decisions that computers make are informed by the data that they receive.
About Cambridge Primary Digital Literacy (0072)
Our Digital Literacy curriculum helps learners to become accomplished, safe, responsible and curious users of digital technology across a range of devices and for a range of purposes. It prepares learners for the future by helping them to identify risks and opportunities and to understand the speed at which technology, and its applications, is changing.
Digital Literacy helps learners develop the skills to produce digital artefacts efficiently and creatively. They will learn how to engage in online spaces safely and to make effective choices about the information that they find online. They will also understand the disruptive nature of digital technologies and become equipped to assess the positive and negative impacts that this disruption is having on individuals, communities and upon whole industries.
You can teach Cambridge Primary Digital Literacy on its own or integrate into other lessons by adapting materials such as the Schemes of Work.