Computing

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Free Computing study notes for Key Stage 2 (KS2) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

Algorithms and programming

  • Designing and writing programs that accomplish specific goals

  • Controlling or simulating physical systems

  • Solving problems by decomposing them into smaller parts

  • Sequence in programs

  • Selection in programs

  • Repetition in programs

  • Working with variables

  • Various forms of input and output

  • Using logical reasoning to explain how simple algorithms work

  • Detecting and correcting errors in algorithms and programs

Computer networks and the internet

  • Computer networks, including the internet

  • Services provided by networks, such as the World Wide Web

  • Opportunities for communication and collaboration

  • Using search technologies effectively and how results are selected and ranked

  • Being discerning in evaluating digital content

Information technology: selecting, using and combining software

  • Selecting, using and combining a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create programs, systems and content

  • Collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information

Using technology safely, respectfully and responsibly

  • Using technology safely, respectfully and responsibly

  • Recognising acceptable and unacceptable behaviour

  • Ways to report concerns about content and contact

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