At Blessed Mother Teresa’s we believe in a high-quality computing education to equip pupils to use thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. We want our pupils to become digitally literate so they are able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world. Through our Curriculum Vehicle curriculum we ensure pupils are aware of career opportunities and can learn from expertise. It should be part of our daily lives so pupils can use it responsibly and safely.

Here at Blessed Mother Teresa’s Catholic Primary School we aim to help each child to develop into a;

Digital citizen – who is safe and responsible

Digital creator – who is logical and creative

Digital communicator – who is digitally literate

Pupil Voice

One of our classes were lucky enough to have a skype call from Dr Natalie Taylor, who with part of her team 'The Ice Maidens', Skied coast-to-coast across Antarctica, a total of 1,700km. Here is what some of our children said about it-

Amelia- 'I loved hearing about her expeditions.'

Karolina- ' I liked the fact that 'The Ice Maidens' were an all girl team.'

David- 'I liked learning about a famous person from the person themselves- first hand.'

Here is what some of our other pupils say about our computing curriculum...

Jayden- 'It is important nowadays to be able to use computers and other devices. I loved our coding module. We use algorithms to control characters. Sometimes we had to debug the algorithm if there was an error.

Aiyla- I liked using the website code.org. We created our own online games.

Biography Introduction

Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He is said to be the inventor of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web allows people to see Web sites on a computer.

Early Life

Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955, in London, England. His parents were mathematicians and worked on the first commercial computer at the University of Manchester. As a child, Berners-Lee was fascinated by computers. He also enjoyed mathematics and electronics. He attended the University of Oxford and graduated in 1976 with a degree in physics.

Career

Berners-Lee began his career as a computer software designer. He moved on to other positions in the computer industry. He worked at CERN, a physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. While at CERN, Berners-Lee worked on a system that would allow different computers to communicate with each other. In 1989 he wrote a proposal for a system that would allow researchers to share and retrieve techniques, practices, and results with each other at any time using the Internet. He created the software for the World Wide Web in 1990–91. In 1994 Berners-Lee formed the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a professor. He also co?wrote Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor (1999). Awards and Honours

Berners-Lee was elected a fellow in the Royal Society in 2001. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 and was awarded the Order of Merit in 2007. In 2004 Berners-Lee received the first Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.