Primary Intent
Ark Globe Academy Primary is committed to delivering the three strands of the Computing curriculum (Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy) to ensure our students can thrive in an increasingly digital world. We value the use of technology to teach logical thinking and as a tool to enhance all other areas of learning.
At Globe Primary, students learn the principles of Computer Science and develop the skills to create their own applications. We want our students to create meaningful projects throughout their time and have ownership over what they create. Within Information Technology we ensure all students have a secure understanding of the types of systems that they interact with daily and feel confident understanding the world around then. Developing perseverance to establish a positive culture around mistakes to support debugging is central to our approach to coding. All students are given the opportunity to practice their Digital Literacy through cross-curricular work and explicit teaching of key skills. For example: word processing, spreadsheets, creating images and publishing.
We also want to ensure that students become digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.
Our Computing curriculum is delivered through the Purple Mash programme from Year 1 to Year 6, which gives our students the opportunity for a diverse and relevant Computing curriculum. The programme emphasises cumulative mastery of the essential knowledge and skills of the three strands of Computing.
Secondary & Sixth Form Intent
Our Computer Science curriculum prepares students for university and to be leaders in their community by:
- Enabling students to be safe and ambitious users of technology, allowing them to full access the powerful opportunities they offer
- Exposing students to real world problems and developing their ability to solve them using innovative and creative thinking methods
- Provoking thought and debate about the positive and negative, legal, ethical and environmental impact technology has on the world we live in
So that students can better understand and change the world with the tools and resources they have access to.
Computer Science News
Year 1
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Online Safety and Grouping and Sorting | Pictograms |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Lego Builders and Maze Explorers | Animated Story Books |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Coding | Spreadsheets and Technology Outside of School |
All Year 1 subjects Next Year 1 Subject - Physical Education
Year 2
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Coding | Online Safety and Spreadsheets |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Spreadsheets and Questioning | Questioning and Effective Searching |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Creating Pictures | Making Music and Presenting Ideas |
All Year 2 subjects Next Year 2 Subject - Physical Education
Year 3
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Coding | Online Safety |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Spreadsheets and Touch Typing | Emails |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Emails | Simulations and Graphing |
All Year 3 subjects Next Year 3 Subject - Physical Education
Year 4
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Coding | Online Safety |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Spreadsheets | Writing for Different Audiences |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Lego and Animation | Effective Search |
All Year 4 subjects Next Year 4 Subject - Physical Education
Year 5
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Coding | Online Safety and Spreadsheets |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Spreadsheets and Databases | Game Creator |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| 3D Modelling | Concept Maps |
All Year 5 subjects Next Year 5 Subject - Physical Education
Year 6
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Coding | Online Safety and Spreadsheets |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Blogging | Text Adventures |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Networks | Quizzing |
All Year 6 subjects Next Year 6 Subject - Physical Education
Year 7
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Using MS 365 (Teams, Emails, OneNote) and Impact of technology |
Using media – Gaining support for a cause |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Computer Systems (Hardware) | Computer Systems (Software) |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Programming essentials in Scratch 1 | Programming essentials in Scratch 2 |
All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - Physical Education
Year 8
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Introduction to Python programming 1 |
Introduction to Python programming 2 |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Data Representation (numbers) | Data Representation (text) |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Modelling data - Spreadsheets 1 | Modelling data - Spreadsheets 2 |
All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - Physical Education
Year 9
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Python programming with sequences of data 1 |
Python programming with sequences of data 2 |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Data Representation (images) | Data Representation (sound) |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Networks 1 | Networks 2 |
All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - Physical Education
Year 10
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Architecture of the CPU, Secondary Storage, Units, and Data Storage |
Programming Fundamentals, Data Types and Additional Programming Techniques |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Units, Data Storage, Compression, Networks and Topologies, and Wired and Wireless Networks, Protocols and Layers |
Additional Programming Techniques and Defensive Design |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Architecture of the CPU, CPU Performance, Embedded Systems, Networks and Topologies, Wired and Wireless Networks, Protocols and Layers, and Threats to Systems and Networks |
Sorting and Searching Algorithms, Defensive Design and Testing |
All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Physical Education
Year 11
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Operating Systems, Utility Software, Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Environmental Impact, Languages and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) |
Additional Programming Techniques and Sorting and Searching Algorithms |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Identifying and Preventing Vulnerabilities and Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Environmental Impact |
Revision |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Summer GCSE Exams | Summer GCSE Exams |
All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Physical Education
Year 11 to 12 Transition Pack
Year 12
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Structure and function of the processor, Types of Processor; Input, output and storage; and Systems Software |
Programming Techniques, Data Types, Data structures, and Boolean Algebra |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Applications Generation, Software Development, and Types of Programming Language |
Compression, Encryption and Hashing, Databases, and Networks |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Web Technologies and Algorithms |
Legislation; Moral and ethical issues; Thinking Abstractly; Thinking Ahead; Thinking procedurally; Thinking Logically; Thinking concurrently; Computational methods; and UNIT 3 Introduction |
Year 13
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Unit 3 (NEA); Types of Programming Language; and Programming techniques |
Unit 3 (NEA), Algorithms and Databases |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Complete and submit Unit 3 (NEA) | Revision |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Summer Exams | Summer Exams |