{"id":1915,"date":"2016-06-13T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2016-06-13T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:16:50","slug":"computing-curriculum-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/computing-curriculum-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing curriculum in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting on Friday, in London, about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-curriculum-in-england-computing-programmes-of-study\">Computing curriculum in England<\/a>, which was introduced in September 2014 to replace the previous ICT curriculum. It&#8217;s an ambitious curriculum that aims to deliver computer science at all stages of compulsory education (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldclassteachers.co.uk\/for-teachers\/overseas-teachers\/uk-education-system\/\">Key Stages<\/a> 1-4). The main change is the move away from ICT to computer science, with a focus on algorithms, data structures and coding. This is in keeping with many other countries (such as the US, China and Thailand), which\u00a0are also focussing on computer science.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s plans are ambitious. Learners at Key Stage 1 (age 5-7) will be introduced to algorithms and simple programming; at Key Stage 2 (age 8-11) they are expected to know how computer networks work and to use logical reasoning; at Key Stage 3 (age 12-14) they are introduced to computational abstractions and must know two or more programming languages; and at Key Stage 4 (age 15-16) they must study computer science at sufficient depth to allow them to progress to higher levels of study. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computational_thinking\">Computational thinking<\/a> is emphasised throughout all Stages.<\/p>\n<p>The event I attended was specifically about creating item banks for formative assessment questions to help learners evaluate their progress through the Stages. I enjoyed both aspects of the day &#8211; learning about England&#8217;s approach to computer science and also their plans for this item bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting on Friday, in London, about the new Computing curriculum in England, which was introduced in September 2014 to replace the previous ICT curriculum. It&#8217;s an ambitious curriculum that aims to deliver computer science at all stages of compulsory education (Key Stages 1-4). The main change is the move away from ICT to computer science, with a focus on algorithms, data structures and coding. This is in keeping with many other countries (such as the US, China&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}