Primary Computing 0059 (2021): Stage 1

Computational Thinking

Programming

Managing Data

Networks and Digital Communication

Computer Systems

Follow the steps in algorithms for everyday tasks.

Identify single errors in algorithms that represent everyday events or tasks.

Know how to give simple instructions, using directional language (forward, backwards, left, right), to navigate a path.

Suggest sets of ordered instructions to complete simple tasks, such as drawing a picture of a particular object or building a brick tower.

Know that an algorithm is a set of instructions to complete a task or to solve a problem.

Know that the order of instructions is important when creating algorithms.

Suggest ways that algorithms can be changed to affect the outcome.

Know that algorithms can be recreated as code on computers.

Know how to recreate algorithms as programs to perform simple tasks.

Predict what is likely to happen when programs are run.

Know that programs can contain errors.

Know how to run programs to test whether they produce the desired result.

Identify why a program does not produce the desired result.

Know that 'debugging' is the correction of errors in programs.

Know that computing devices can be used in different ways to answer many different types of question.

Know that computing devices can help to sort and organise data.

Know how to use computing devices to manually record data, including using a form.

Identify questions that can be answered using data tables, limited to categorical data.

Know that some devices can connect to each other to make a network.

Know that the internet consists of many computers that are connected together around the world.

Identify that some devices are connected by wires and that other devices are not. 

Know that there are times when the internet is not available.

Know that there are a range of computer systems with different functions, including communication, entertainment, creativity, research and for controlling other technology.

Know that computers can run many different programs, including games, apps and document creation tools.

Know that information and data can be input to computers in many different ways.

Know that computers can output information in many different ways.

Know that there are many everyday devices that use computers to control what they do.

Identify what robots are and where they may be found in the real world.