The eLearning Service has always worked with a number of special schools in the city and beyond looking at how technology can support learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). When the Computing curriculum was announced, we began to work with these schools to look at how the…
We are proud to announce that the 2017 version of the Sheffield Primary Computing Scheme of Work will be launched at a mini Computing conference on the 24th May 2017. This conference will start at 2pm and finish at 5.30pm, with an option for a 4pm start for attendees undable…
This post was originally published in the Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools group on the National STEM Centre website: Technology is a great enabler, and can support students with special educational needs and disabilities to access learning and create meaningful content. The programming elements of the computing curriculum can, however, be…
The SEND Computing Conference took place onthe 30th November and 1st December at the National STEM Learning Centre in York. You can read about the Monday evening session on assessment and Ian Bean’s keynote in Part 1 of the blog here. Workshops: 1. Scratch and the Kinect Matthew Parry, a…
After talking to a number of colleagues in special schools and on Twitter, I decided to organise an SEND Computing Conference to help share ways of adapting the curriculum for learners with special educational needs and disabilities. We held it at the National STEM Centre in York, which is a…
This week I spent a day at the wonderful National Science Learning Centre in York learning about the BBC micro:bit on a Computing at School roadshow. The micro:bit is a very simple computer that is being sent out to schools this year for every year 7 pupil to enable them…
This is the second post about the SEN Computing Day held at the Sheffield South City Learning Centre on the 6th February – it is posted again here due to a change in website. You can read part 1 here. Afternoon session – looking at the KS2 Computer Science elements…
This post has been copied over from the old website, and refers to a conference held in February 2014 Last Thursday 16 teachers from special schools in Sheffield, Derbyshire and Doncaster descended upon the CLC to look at the new Computing Curriculum and how the computer science elements can be taught to…
The Computing curriculum has changed what is taught in schools, of all types and phases, but the means of assessment for those who have not yet reached National curriculum levels, the P Scales, have not been altered. There is a fundamental mismatch between the curriculum and the means of recognising…
I attended a Hack the Curriculum event last week in London with a number of teachers and digital industry professionals to start work on a Wikibook for KS3 Computing. It was organised by #include – a working group of Computing at School who are working to make Computing accessible for…
