Curriculum

Computing is concerned with developing the student’s ability to understand and change the world through computational thinking. It develops and requires logical thinking and precision. It combines creativity with rigour: students apply underlying principles to understand real-world systems, and to create purposeful and usable artefacts. More broadly, it provides a lens through which to understand both natural and artificial systems, and has substantial links with the teaching of Mathematics, Science, and Design and Technology.

At the core of computing is the science and engineering discipline of Computer Science, in which students are taught how digital systems work, how they are designed and programmed, and the fundamental principles of information and computation. Building on this core, computing equips students to apply information technology to create products and solutions. A computing education also ensures that pupils become digitally literate – able to use, and express themselves through, information and communication technology – at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.