The aims of the Digital Technology Curriculum at Stockingford Academy

• To ensure safe use of ICT including how to keep safe when online
• To develop responsible, confident and creative users of ICT
• To use and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science
• To present problems in computational terms and develop practical experience of writing computer programs
• To develop digital literacy skills for use in the digital world today and in the future
• To evaluate and apply ICT use, including new or unfamiliar technologies.

Delivering the Digital Technology Curriculum at Stockingford Academy

Our Digital Technology Curriculum provides children with learning opportunities designed to develop their knowledge and skills across essential areas of Computer Science and Information and Communication Technology.  The Digital Technology Curriculum ensures that children become digitally literate, with the ability to use, express themselves and develop their ideas through use of technology, supporting their development for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.

Our curriculum is organised into three units of work per year that cover the three key aspects of Digital Technology:

• Information and Communication Technology – learning about how digital technology can be used to create and publish a range of content using Office-based software.  This includes posters, presentations and using spreadsheets to handle data.
• Computing – learning about the way in which digital technology can be used to program software and apps.  This includes learning how to enter code to control computer programs and how to debug and correct coding errors.
• Digital Content – learning about how digital technology can be used in wider contexts to create more elaborate digital content.  This includes learning a wide range of skills linked to animation, photography, videography and website design.

In addition, our Digital Technology Curriculum ensures that our children have the knowledge and skills to be able to keep themselves safe whenever they access technology and the internet. From Reception to Year 6, children are provided with varied learning opportunities as well as bespoke lessons to discuss and understand the importance of keeping themselves safe online. 

The Inspire Computing Curriculum incorporates three clear aspects:

• Computer Science (CS),
• Information Technology (IT) and
• Digital Literacy (DL)

Our children will be taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work and how to put this knowledge to use through programming. Children will be equipped to use ICT to create programs, systems and a range of content. We ensure that children become digitally literate, able to use and express themselves and develop their ideas through ICT, at a level suitable for their academic stage that will develop them for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.