Year 1
As a school we follow the Purple Mash scheme of work and in Year 1 the children will cover the following topics
Online Safety (Digital Literacy)
Grouping and Sorting (Information Technology)
Pictograms (Information Technology)
Lego Builders (Computer Science)
Maze Explorers (Computer Science)
Animated Stories (Information Technology)
Coding (Computer Science and Digital Literacy)
Spreadsheets (Information Technology)
Technology Outside of School (Digital Literacy)
By following this scheme of work we ensure that all parts of the curriculum are covered and that the children get a broad and balanced computing curriculum. Below you will find the knowledge and skills covered in each unit.
Knowledge
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Online Safety
To login safely. To start to introduce to the children the idea of ‘ownership’ of their creative work.
To know how to find saved work in the Online Work area and find teacher comments. To know how to search Purple Mash to find resources.
To become familiar with the types of resources available in the Topics section. To become more familiar with the icons used in the resources in the Topic section. To start to add pictures and text to work.
To explore the Tools section of Purple Mash and to learn about the common icons used in Purple Mash for Save, Print, Open, New. To explore the Games section on Purple Mash. To understand the importance of logging out when they have finished.
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Grouping and Sorting
To sort items using a range of criteria.
To sort items on the computer using the ‘Grouping’ activities in Purple Mash.
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Pictograms
To understand that data can be represented in picture format
To contribute to a class pictogram
To contribute to a class pictogram to record the results of an experiment.
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Lego Builders
To emphasise the importance of following instructions.
To follow and create simple instructions on the computer.
To consider how the order of instructions affects the result. |
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Maze Explorers
To understand the functionality of the basic direction keys
To be able to use the direction keys to complete the challenges successfully
To understand how to create and debug a set of instructions (algorithm).
To use the additional direction keys as part of their algorithm. To understand how to change and extend the algorithm list. To create a longer algorithm for an activity.
To set challenges for each other.
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Animated Story Books
To be introduced to e-books and to 2Create a Story.
To continue a previously saved story. To add animation to a story.
To add sound to a story including voice recording and music the children have created.
To work on a more complex story including adding backgrounds and copying and pasting pages.
To use additional features to enhance their stories. To share their e-books on a class display board. |
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Coding
Introduction to block coding on screen.
Introduction to backgrounds and characters.
Making a character move left and right.
Making a character move when clicked.
Introduction to Collision Detection. |
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Spreadsheets
Introduction to spreadsheets
Adding images to a spreadsheet and using the image toolbox
Using the ‘speak’ and ‘count’ tools in 2Calculate to count items |
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Technology outside of school
To walk around the local community and find examples of where technology is used.
To record examples of technology outside school. |
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