Technologies

Technology is the application of knowledge and skills to extend human capabilities and to help satisfy human needs and wants. Learning in the technologies enables children and young people to be informed, skilled, thoughtful, adaptable and enterprising citizens.

Concepts within Technologies are grouped within six key contexts:

·         Technological Development in Society

·         ICT to Enhance Learning

·         Business Contexts

·         Computing Science

·         Food and Textiles

·         Craft, Design, Engineering and Graphics

We aim to be at the forefront of using technologies to enhance learning, including through developing the ways in which our parents, carers and families can engage with this learning.

All of our pupils have access to Texthelp Read&Write both at school and at home through the extension on their Google Account.

Used daily by millions of students worldwide, Texthelp Read&Write is an award-winning literacy toolbar that helps reach every learner and realise their full potential.

Coding

We are really lucky to have multiple opportunities to learn coding skills in school.  Our younger learners may learn how to create a code with play experiences and learning to create a list of instructions.  Older children have the opportunity to program a mini processor called a Micro:bit.

BBC micro:bit - the next gen is a brand new campaign and a partnership between the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, BBC Education and Nominet with a focus on empowering primary school children with the digital skills to understand the world around them and to shape their own future.

The first micro:bit was invented by the BBC and partners and launched in 2015, honouring the BBC’s legacy of computing that stretches back to the original BBC Micro computer of the 1980s. 

Since 2015, 6.5 million micro:bits have been manufactured and sold with an estimated 42 million children learning digital skills with the micro:bit globally. Micro:bit projects are now taking place in over 60 countries, working with a range of different partners including national broadcasters, governments and NGOs.