At Childwall Church of England Primary School, we recognise that pupils are living in a rapidly changing world, in which ICT is playing an ever-increasing role. We aim, therefore, to equip children with the skills to adapt to new technologies and to give them confidence to use ICT and computing skills to further their learning and assist them in everyday life.  

Building on this knowledge and understanding, pupils follow the four streams of our school specific curriculum which are; technology in our lives, coding and programming, data handling and multimedia. Our children build on their learning through their school journey whilst accessing a range of websites, apps and platforms to further their understanding and develop real world computing skills. Computing also ensures that pupils 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 curriculum has been designed to incorporate uses of technology such as; word processing, effective researching, spreadsheets, animation, media creation, coding and social, as well as a variety of iPad applications and websites.    

As detailed in our overall curriculum intent, the teaching of Computing at Childwall embraces our school motto of ‘and the child grew’. By focussing on this motto as well as our commitment to consistently reviewing and evaluating our computing curriculum, we believe our children will be ready to successfully meet the challenges of the next stages of their education.