Year 5

Autumn 1 Digital Literacy and Online Safety	Spring 1 LEGO	Summer 1 Manipulating Sound
Autumn 2 LEGO	Spring 2 Building Collaborative Websites	Summer 2 What is a Computer?

In Year 5, children will complete the following skills related to Computing:

Computer Science:

- Plan and design a solution (algorithm) that uses repetition and two-way selection i.e. if, then and else.

- Can explain the difference between ‘if’, ‘then’ and ‘else’ statements.

- Can independently declare and assign variables.

- Show an awareness of tasks best completed by humans or computers.

- Know that different solutions exist for the same problem.

IT and Digital Literacy:

- Know the difference between the internet and internet service e.g. the World Wide Web.

- Compare the difference between hardware and application software, and the roles within a computer system.

- Produce their own success criteria to evaluate their own work and that of others.

- Use the criteria to improve the content and design of their digital project.

- Collect data in a variety of ways; use this to produce graphs or charts which are used in appropriate software to present the analysis.

- Make spreadsheet models to answer given problems, using a range of simple calculations and functions.