At Woodford Valley, we recognise how widely technology is used by pupils both in and out of school and the impact is has on their lives and learning.
ICT competence plays an important role in enabling children to be confident, creative and independent learners.
Our aim is that children are responsible, competent, wise and creative users of technology. We foster and support children’s interest, expertise and enthusiasm for using and applying ICT throughout the curriculum. We aim to provide children with the skills, attitudes and visions to operate in a rapidly-changing and increasingly technological world, safely and responsibly.
Pupils are encouraged to use these skills and this experience to support and develop their learning across all areas of the curriculum, using technology as a tool for researching specific areas of interest and drawing upon the knowledge and wisdom of a global community.
Within a safe and supportive environment, pupils are encouraged to explore and find out for themselves and to have the confidence to problem-solve when using new technologies, resources or applications. Pupils are taught that their contributions could potentially be shared with a global community and this gives them a responsibility for the contributions they create and share.
We support children in developing the wisdom to become critical and discriminating in the information and resources they encounter. In offering experiences of a broad variety of resources and applications, we enable opportunities for pupils to find, explore, analyse, exchange, present, program and code information. Children are taught to think logically, identify inputs and outputs and order instructions to create codes.
Children’s coding skills are built on and developed throughout the year groups, with examples of everyday applications introduced wherever possible. Within a broad and balanced curriculum, at each Key Stage, our Computing curriculum builds on children’s experience of and ability to:
The school uses the internet as part of the statutory curriculum in order to fulfil the entitlement for pupils. The school has a policy in place to ensure internet safety.
Safer Internet Day – Tuesday 7th February 2023
Tuesday 7th February is Safer Internet Day – an international initiative to promote greater awareness and understanding to help young people stay safe online. During the week, classes revisited their esafety rules (these are on our class webpages) and began to explore this year’s theme of ‘Together for a better internet’ ; this includes how we can make the internet a safer and better place for all, especially children.
Internet Matters is a resource for both younger and older children https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/online-safety-guide-0-5-year-olds/
Useful one page leaflet for parents with under 5’s: https://pwxp5srs168nsac2n3fnjyaa-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Internet-Matters-Guide-Online-safety-for-parents-of-children-0-5-years-old.pdf
NSPCC leaflet for parents of 8-12 year olds https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1489/share-aware-parents-guide.pdf
More information and resources about safer internet day for parents and carers can be found here: https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2023/top-tips-for-parents-and-carers
This free online safety guide highlights some of the key points from Ofcom’s 2023 Media Use and Attitudes report. It outlines statistics and trends such as the current most popular platforms for young people and the proportion of children in each age group who play online games.
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Woodford Valley C.E. Primary Academy
Middle Woodford, Salisbury
SP4 6NR
Telephone: 01722 782361
Email: office@woodfordvalley.wilts.sch.uk