Intent

At our school, the computing curriculum aims to equip all pupils with the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to thrive in a digital world. Using the Purple Mash scheme of work, we intend to:

• Provide a broad, balanced, and progressive computing curriculum that develops digital literacy, computer science, and information technology skills from EYFS to Year 6.
• Ensure children become confident, responsible, and creative digital citizens who can use technology safely, respectfully, and effectively.
• Develop pupils’ understanding of coding, logical reasoning, data handling, multimedia creation, communication, and online safety, ensuring progression across year groups.
• Promote problem-solving, resilience, and computational thinking, enabling children to apply skills across the curriculum and in real-world contexts.
• Ensure all pupils, including SEND learners, can access computing through structured, scaffolded and adaptive resources within the Purple Mash platform.
• Prepare pupils for a rapidly changing technological world and support them in becoming capable and digitally fluent individuals.

Implementation

Our computing curriculum is delivered through the structured units, resources, and digital tools provided by Purple Mash, ensuring consistent coverage and clear progression.

• Sequential Progression: Each year group follows the Purple Mash Unit Content Overview, which builds skills gradually, revisiting key concepts (such as coding, data, multimedia, online safety) in an age-appropriate way.
• Practical, Hands-On Learning: Pupils regularly use Purple Mash applications (e.g., 2Code, 2Calculate, 2Publish, 2Quiz, 2Blog) to apply skills in authentic and creative tasks.
• Differentiated and Inclusive: Purple Mash tools allow for adjustable challenge, templates, and guided tasks—supporting SEND pupils while extending more confident learners.
• Integrated Online Safety: Online safety is taught explicitly through dedicated Purple Mash units and revisited continually across the curriculum according to statutory guidance (including Project Evolve wherever appropriate).
• Cross-Curricular Links: Purple Mash supports wider subjects—for example, digital art in Art, data handling in Maths, writing tools in English, and research skills in Science and Topic work.
• Assessment for Learning: Teachers use Purple Mash outcomes, pupil portfolios, and formative observations to assess progress. Many units include built-in quizzes, challenges, or self-evaluation prompts.
• Staff Support and CPD: Teachers benefit from Purple Mash’s planning materials, exemplars, guides, and step-by-step unit instructions to deliver high-quality computing lessons.
• Safe, Managed Digital Environment: The platform is cloud-based and secure, enabling controlled access and safe sharing of work, blogs, and collaborative projects.

Impact

By the end of each key stage, pupils will:

• Show progressive understanding of computing concepts, demonstrated through completed Purple Mash tasks, coding projects, multimedia work, and digital content.
• Be able to plan, create, debug, and evaluate programs using block-based coding tools such as 2Code.
• Use technology purposefully and creatively to produce documents, presentations, digital art, music, animations, and data representations.
• Understand the importance of online safety, demonstrating responsible behaviours and awareness of risks in a digital world.
• Develop confidence, independence, and enjoyment in using a wide range of digital tools, preparing them well for secondary computing education.
• Be able to articulate their learning, explain how they solved problems, and reflect on outcomes using age-appropriate digital vocabulary.
• Demonstrate that computing learning is secure and embedded, enabling them to apply digital skills across the curriculum and beyond school.

Ultimately, the impact is that our pupils leave primary school as competent, confident, and creative digital learners, ready to use technology safely and effectively in a modern society.

Curriculum Documents

Purple Mash Scheme of Work and Long Term Overview

Year 1

Using click/drag/drop to paint and change tools. Year 1 created images based on the story ‘What The Ladybird Heard’.

Year 3

Year 3 have been learning about safe searing online and how to copy and paste images.

Year 5

Year 5 have designed their own multi-level computer games including scenery, collectables, baddies and sound effects. Year 6 then played and evaluated their games.