Computing
Digital Leaders, 2023-2024: 'Our greatest achievement this year was helping others when using technology and teaching people how to be safe online.'
Intent of our Computing curriculum
At Trotts Hill we aim to ensure that all children become digitally literate in this ever changing technical world.
Our curriculum is designed around four key areas, as outlined in the National Curriculum, computer science, information technology, digital literacy and online safety. The combination of these areas allows children to gain skills to develop ideas that they are able to use throughout their lives in a digital world and leave primary school computer literate. It is our intention to enable children to find, explore, analyse and present information using technology creatively.
Staff are encouraged to model positive use of technology and ensure their lessons are accessible to all pupils. We want children to be fluent in a range of tools and hope that by the end of Upper Key Stage 2, children will be independent and confident to apply their technological knowledge.
We are highly motivated to ensure that all children will leave Trotts Hill with a strong and secure understanding of how to stay safe online.
Computing - National Curriculum
Computing Intent, Implementation and Impact
Computing Curriculum Maps
Online Safety
Internet Guidance for Parents
Please read the guidelines for parents. The guidelines are linked to different games and apps.
This is a really useful link which shows a parents' guide to protecting young children from harmful content. The link specifically focuses on the game 'Roblox' which many of our pupils are using. Please read the webpage to ensure that your child is keeping safe while using the internet and the ways in which you can help. Link below:
Please read this terms Internet Safety Newsletter.
Summer Online Safety Newsletter
Please read this term's online safety newsletter for parents and carers. There is some useful information with age guidance for smartphone usages, ABC guidelines to help you manage your child's online safety, gaming tips and advice on using chatrooms.
Spring Online Safety Newsletter 2025
Autumn Online Safety Newsletter 2024
Times Tables Rock Stars
We use the Times Tables Rock Stars Platform to support our learning of times tables.
Times Tables Rock Stars Parent Guide
Purple Mash
We use the Purple Mash platform (amongst others) to support our learning across the whole school.
Digital Leaders 2025-2026
These are the new digital leaders for this school year. They have an important job to maintain internet safety, look after the laptops and share SMART rules with their classes.
Summer Term 2026
Year 3 - Branching Databases
Year 3 completed a branching database in an unplugged lesson. They used 'Yes' and 'No' questions to sort fruit.
Spring Term 2026
Reception - Safer Internet Day
Reception have been learning all about online reputation and identifying ways information can be put on the internet. The children drew pictures of activities online and activities offline showing an excellent understanding of what this meant.
Year 3 - E-Safety Week
Year 3 focused on health and wellbeing for their E-safety week lessons. We discussed the positives and negatives of technology and then discussed age-restrictions and reasons for these. The class were asked to reflect on their own online habits and think about what they could do to change to ensure that they were keeping safe and healthy online.
Year 5 E-Safety Week
After improving weak passwords, Year 5 learned that free apps and services make money through advertising and selling data. They examined why type of data can be passed on to other companies and how to use privacy consent to minimise this.
Year 6 - E-Safety Week
Year 6 completed the 2BeSafe unit: Online reputations. Year 6 learnt how to promote a positive online reputation.
In English, Year 6 debated the question: Should children access social media? and then wrote a discussion text, looking at both perspectives of the argument.
Year 3 - Spreadsheets
Year 3 started their learning about spreadsheets. They explored 'Advanced Mode' in 2 Calculate. They merged cells, added sheets, renamed sheets and added columns.
Year 6 - Coding
Autumn Term 2025
Year 2 - Spreadsheets
Year 3 - Emails
The children all received an email from Mrs Chumbley asking them a couple of questions. The children had to open the email and reply.
Year 4 Photo Editing
Year 4 have been learning about photo editing. We have talked about the reliability of photographs we see online, in magazines and in advertising and talked about the dangers of being influenced by unrealistic images that show a distorted reality that can be unhealthy. We had fun cloning and erasing elements of photographs before learning how to combine pictures to make interesting, comical and fantastical images.
Year 5 Databases
The children read a text about mythical creatures and grouped the information. They designed and created a database, deciding on whether validation tools such as a menu of choices should be used.
