Our Mission Statement is at the heart of all our teaching and learning and at St Joseph’s we are committed to providing all children with learning opportunities to engage in the curriculum.

Our Vision, ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.’ John 10.10, also reflects how we want our children to experience a range of culture, technology and experiences throughout their lives, to embrace the world God created and do our best in it.

## The Nature of Computing

“ICT prepares children to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied and developing technology. Children use ICT tools to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information responsibly, creatively and with discrimination. They learn how to employ ICT to enable rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. Increased capability in the use of ICT promotes initiative and independent learning with children being able to make informed judgements about when and where to use ICT to best effect, and to consider its implications for home and work both now and in the future.” (DFES National Curriculum)

At St Joseph’s we regard Computing as a key tool in helping us to fulfil our mission to provide, ‘the best possible system of education to meet the needs of our children’. We regard Computing as an on-going priority for school development as well as a tool for raising standards in Literacy, Numeracy and across all areas of learning and development. Pupils use these tools to communicate and handle information, and present it in a variety of ways. They learn to control a variety of electronic devices and develop an understanding of the use of control in everyday life. They use computer models to explore and test the answers to questions.

## Aims & Objectives.

- l enable all children to use Computing with purpose and enjoyment l enable all children to use Computing with purpose and enjoyment
- o providing tasks which are interesting and give scope for individual responsibility. o providing tasks which are interesting and give scope for individual responsibility.
- l enable all children to develop the necessary skills to exploit Computing l enable all children to develop the necessary skills to exploit Computing
- o ensuring enough access by pupils to become more proficient in the basic Computing skills. o ensuring enough access by pupils to become more proficient in the basic Computing skills.
- l enable all children to become autonomous users of Technology l enable all children to become autonomous users of Technology
- o planning activities which allow children opportunities to apply their skills in a variety of different subject o planning activities which allow children opportunities to apply their skills in a variety of different subject contexts.
- l enable all children to evaluate the benefits of Computing and its impact on society l enable all children to evaluate the benefits of Computing and its impact on society
- o leading group or class discussion about the benefits and limitations of Computing and by creating o leading group or class discussion about the benefits and limitations of Computing and by creating opportunities to compare classroom use of Computing with that in the wider world.
- l meet the requirement of the National Curriculum as fully as possible and enable all children to reach the highest l meet the requirement of the National Curriculum as fully as possible and enable all children to reach the highest possible standards of achievement
- o intervening, where appropriate, to reinforce an idea or teach a new point. By selecting groups where all o intervening, where appropriate, to reinforce an idea or teach a new point. By selecting groups where all pupils are equally active and involved in the task, and have equal access to the computer keyboard;
- o planning activities which allow different levels of achievement or incorporate possibilities for extension o planning activities which allow different levels of achievement or incorporate possibilities for extension work.
- l create the atmosphere and levels of resource to encourage all members of the school community to learn with l create the atmosphere and levels of resource to encourage all members of the school community to learn with