The site menu gives you the option to see the units we recommend for each year group from year 1 to year 8. We've broken them down in each case for those we'd recommend you teach in the autumn, spring and summer terms, however, there's nothing to stop you moving things around if it works better in your schools.
You can also just browse all our units from the site menu, or break them down into units for Key Stage 1, 2 or 3.
We've categorised our units into two main strands; Computer Science and IT & Digital Literacy. The latter is a combination of two computing categories, but they overlap each other so often when lesson planning that we've merged them for this purpose.
These main strands contain a number of sub-strands within them. We recommend that a broad and balanced curriculum in your school should contain coverage of all of these elements where possible.
Our plans cover the following elements:
Computer Science
Control and Programming
Analysing and solving problems, exploring how machines work, writing algorithms, debugging algorithms, controlling physical devices.
Computational Thinking
Activities that teach the key processes of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms, as well as understanding of the theory of computer science and how machines work.
IT & Digital Literacy
Multimedia
Digital art packages, 3D design, photo editing, word processing, desktop publishing, web design, presenting and storytelling, animation, recording, editing, creating sounds and video and music digitally.
Information and Technology
Safe and smart digital research, how computers work, how the internet works, searching, data handling, databases, data storage.
Online Safety
Safe, healthy and responsible use of technology. Media balance and well-being, privacy and security, digital footprint and identity, relationships and communication, cyberbullying, digital drama and hate speech, news and media literacy.