Computing

Here at Churcham Primary School & Ashleworth CE Primary School we ensure that children are engaged with their Computing skills by providing fun, practical and engaging lessons. Our whole-school scheme which we use here is ‘Purple Mash’. On this page, you will find the overviews for ‘Purple Mash’ and all resources that you will need to support your child with their Computing skills. Following Purple Mash, we use a ‘chimp, gibbon and gorilla’ approach; this means that the Computing work would start with simple coding and tasks, to then get progressively more challenging. This approach allows the child to be slowly scaffolded to experience the challenge of the ‘gorilla’ problems.

As well as our Computing lessons, Churcham continues to incorporate Computing into other subjects by using up-to-date laptops and ipads within lessons to record our work. We also hold fantastic Computing days, including inviting the STEM team in to carry out ‘KNEX challenge’, Lego Coding days and, of course, e-safety days. We hold an annual internet safety day, although we incorporate e-safety into our every day teaching. The children love to all work together during these days and we feel these Computing Days encourage children to enjoy this subject and become more engaged.

In order to ensure that we have covered the Computing curriulum, we have developed a rolling program to teach topics at certain times of the year – please see our overviews relating to Purple Mash below for each year group:

Year 1:

Year 2:

Year 3:

Year 4:

Year 5: