Our curriculum for Computing aims to ensure that all pupils:
• Use technology safely and responsibly
• Recognise acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, and know where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet
• Select, use and combine a variety d software on a range of digital devices to create organise, store and achieve given goals.
• Use logical reasoning to explain how simple algorithms work
• Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals including controlling or simulating systems.
• Understand computer networks including the internet, how they can provide multiple services and the opportunities they offer.

At the Glapton Academy, we successfully applied for a grant from the Royal Society Project. We partnered with Nottingham Trent University (Computer Sciences) to design, create and program air quality monitors using a small computer called a Raspberry Pi. We are going to measure the air quality outside and around the school, analyse the data and present our findings. So far, we have learned to code in a programming language called ‘Python’, designed and 3D printed cases for our hardware and programmed a code to measure the air quality. Out next step is to place them outside for a week and see what happens!