Computing
Our Vision
At White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School, we understand that a high-quality computing education is essential for pupils to understand modern information and communication technologies (ICT), and for them to use these skills to become responsible, competent, confident and creative participants of an increasingly digital world.
We deliver the requirements of the KS1 and KS2 computing programmes of study, and to ensure that our pupils have the digital skills they need. We aim to inspire pupils to continue to learn and apply the skills they learn at secondary school, university, and beyond in the workplace.
Coding & Algorithms
Year 4- Minotaur Mazes
Moorhen and Highland Cow class have been applying the skills taught within the Scratch programme to give commands to move around a maze. The children completed a range of tasks around following instructions, ensuring codes are short and clear, sequencing and repeating codes to make different outcomes and detecting errors when debugging.
Research
Year 3- Safe Searching
Rabbit class have been exploring different search engines and learning how to find out information. The children created lists of questions about their term 1 topic and discussed the importance of using key words when using search engines. They discussed the importance of knowing what is safe and unsafe information and began to disucss whether the information that they read online is accurate and factual.
Online Safety
Online safety is taught throughout year groups across the entire school. The children learn acceptable behaviour, personal information, how to use technology resposibly and how to report concerns and find support from trusted adults. These skills are taught through the year and are reinforced and celebrated during the national Safer Internet Day.
Safer Internet Day 2025.
Last year the focus for Safer Internet Day was online scams and how to spot and report them. It was amazing to see in assembly how many children across the school had come into contact with online scams, whether this be through the games they play or the pop-ups that load on their webpages. Each key stage had a different activity to complete linked to this year' theme and to online safety.
Fledglings spoke about trusted adults at home, in school and within the community. KS1 classes sorted different information into personal and not personal and discussed which information was ok to share online. LKS2 classes became 'scam busters' and learnt the steps to spot a scam. UKS2 designed posters about scamming and phishing full of information with how to spot them.
