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Year 6

Autumn 1

Digital Literacy and Online Safety

Spring 1

LEGO

 

Summer 1

Manipulating Images

Autumn 2

LEGO

Spring 2

Spreadsheet Masters

Summer 2

Inside the Internet

 

In Year 6, children will complete the following skills related to Computing:

Computer Science:

- Use decomposition to plan and design solutions for different parts of a problem.

- Design, write and debug modular programs using procedures.

- Know that a procedure can be used to hide the detail with a sub-solution (procedural abstraction).

IT and Digital Literacy:

- Work with increasing confidence both independently and as a group to create a digital project, which

○ Meets a brief / solves a problem

○ Has used a range of appropriate software

○ Has been created for a targeted audience

○ Demonstrates an awareness of copyright

○ Shows evidence of evaluation and improvement.

- Analyse and evaluate data and know that poor quality data leads to unreliable results, and inaccurate conclusions.

- Can represent data in a variety of formats (charts, tables, graphs, infographics) and can explain when each would be appropriate.

- Know how to effectively use search engines, and know how search results are selected, including that search engines use 'web crawler programs'.

- Perform more complex searches for information e.g. using Boolean and relational operators.