Curriculum overview
Below shows the Purple Mash units of work for each class.
computer science
information technology
digital literacy
Class 1 Year 1 | Unit 1.1 Online Safety | Unit 1.2 Grouping & Sorting | Unit 1.3 Pictograms | Unit 1.4 Lego Builders | Unit 1.5 Maze Explorers | Unit 1.6 Animated Story Books | Unit 1.7 Coding | Unit 1.8 Spreadsheets | Unit 1.9 Technology outside school |
No of lessons | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Main tool | 2Count | 2Go | 2Create A Story | 2Code | 2Calculate |
Cycle A
Class 2 Year 2/3 | Unit 2.2 Online Safety | Unit 2.6 Creating pictures | Unit 2.7 making music | Unit 2.3 Spreadsheets | Unit 3.3 Spreadsheets | Unit 3.6 Branching databases | Unit 3.8 Graphing | Unit 2.1 coding |
No of lessons | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Main tool | 2Paint A Picture | 2Sequence | 2calculate | 2calculate | 2Question | 2graph | 2code |
Cycle B
Class 2 Year 2/3 | Unit 3.2 Online Safety | Unit 3.7 simulations | Unit 2.4 Questioning | Unit 3.4 Touch typing | Unit 3.5 | Unit 2.8 Presenting Ideas | Unit 3.9 Presenting | 3.1 coding |
No of lessons | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Main tool | 2simulate | 2Question 2Investigate | 2type | 2email | Powerpoint | 2code |
Cycle A
Class 3 Year 4/5 | Unit 4.2 Online Safety | Unit 5.8 Word processing | Unit 4.4 Writing for Different Audiences | Unit 4.7 Effective Searching | Unit 4.8 Hardware Investigators | Unit 4.5 Logo | Unit 5.5 Game Creator | Unit 4.9 Making music |
No of lessons | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Main tools | Word | 2logo | 2DIY 3D | Busy beats |
Cycle B
Class 3 Year 4/5 | Unit 5.2 Online Safety | Unit 4.6 Animation | Unit 5.6 3D modelling | Unit 4.3 spreadsheets | Unit 5.3 spreadsheets | Unit 5.4 databases | Unit 4.1 coding | Unit 5.1 coding |
No of lessons | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Main tools | 2animate | 2Design & Make | 2calculate | 2calculate | 2investigate | 2code | 2code |
