Our computing scheme of work
Our resources are everything you need to deliver computing in your primary or first school, all in one place.
These tried and tested units have been developed by North Tyneside's subject specialist advisors, to make teaching computing in your classroom easy for teachers and exciting and engaging for your students.
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We have created a collection of detailed lesson plans and teaching resources to support you with forming a scheme of work to deliver the computing curriculum in your school.
We now have over 50 plans available from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3. More than fit into a year of teaching across an average school! This is to ensure schools have choice and flexibility in terms of which units they choose to teach. We also like to keep things fresh, and so we’re always updating plans and adding new things to the collection, and because they are online resources, you’ll always find the latest copy right here.
We have put together example long term plans that map out an example of how some of our units could be taught across a typical first, primary or middle school. But this is just an example, and there is lots of flexibility to move things around between some year groups and when in the year things are taught. Please also bear in mind that this example does not contain all of our available units, so there may be other things in our collection that you prefer, or are more suited to the situation in your school.
We can also support you to launch these resources in your school. We'd be delighted to introduce your staff to what’s available and help you shape the units into a curriculum that works for your school. Get in touch if you'd like to arrange that.
- Access to our scheme is FREE for schools that buy 4 days or more of computing classroom support.
- You can also buy access to just these resources by purchasing our scheme of work SLA for an annual subscription of £395.
- All staff in your school will have online access to the resources and are free to use these resources for teaching and learning in your school.
- They must not be reproduced without permission.
- Access to the materials must not be shared in any way with individuals or organisations beyond your school.
The site menu gives you the option to see the units we recommend for each year group from year 1 to year 6. 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 school.
You can also 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 strands which often overlap each other when lesson planning, so as a result, we've combined them here.
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 and controlling physical devices.
Computational Thinking
Activities that teach the key processes of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms, as well as an 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 and 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.
You can view and download a document version of our example long term plans here.
Open the plans with the links below. You can then download a copy from the File menu > Select Download.
First and Primary School long term plan
Please visit our service page at educationservices.org.uk to buy access to our scheme of work and the SLA support:
Please get in touch with us at teachictnt@ntlp.org.uk if you would like any further information.
You can find free samples of our paid lessons at the link below.
A number of lessons in our collection are also free for everyone to access and do not require you to log into our site. This is due to the fact that these lesson plans contain Creative Commons content that has been published by external sources. All sources and links to the original materials are clearly credited and displayed, and we thank those sites for their excellent content.
Free to access lessons and lesson samples can be found HERE