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  • Short refresher courses
  • 'New to computing' courses
  • KS1 or KS2 specific courses
  • Direct School Support
  • Teach Primary Certificate
  • Computing Quality Framework (CQF)
  • Signposting Opportunities

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Subsidies For Primary Schools

Subsidies for Primary Schools

This support is available to state-funded priority schools in England - those located in Education Investment Areas (EIAs). 

Read more about funding on the TeachComputing website.

Primary School Subsidies

CQF (Computing Quality Framework)

Use our quickstart guide to getting started with the CQF, and access loads of FREE resources...

  • The NCCE Computing Quality Framework (CQF) self review tool is really easy to use, and is intended to help schools review their progress in developing an exemplary computing curriculum.
  • As a local hub, we can focus our support  based on the outcomes of the self-reviews of schools in their regions
  • Schools can work towards gaining the nationally accredited Computing Quality Mark

Quickstart Guide (1o minutes)

You can get started by registering in just 10 minutes. 

  1. Go to the CQF
  2. Register your school
  3. Click on each of the review areas
  4. Type 'In Progress' or some text to reflect your current position in each of the boxes
  5. Come back to the CQF to review and update as you need.
CQF (Computing Quality Framework)
Courses

Direct Expert Support

PDLs (Professional Development Leads) are qualified under the rigourous NCCE programme, and are experienced in delivering, strategizing and developing Computing and Computer Science.

PDLs can help with...

  • Physical computing support (e.g. crumbles, RaspberryPI, Microbits etc.)
  • Action planning
  • Recommending courses
  • Supporting with individualised challenges and questions
  • Linking you with other schools for mutual support

You can book time with a PDL by contact one of our team.

Direct Support

Primary Courses

You can choose from a full range of courses to upskill you or your staff.

There are two pathways, depending on what you need:

  1. Developing in the classroom
  2. Specialising or leading

There are two places to access these courses:

  1. Locally led courses, accessed from this site, and  led by a PDL who will also be quite local to Suffolk, Norfolk or Colchester)
  2. Regionally or nationally led courses (accessed from https://teachcomputing.org/primary-teachers. Our locally led courses are also advertised on https://teachcomputing.org/primary-teachers)

Click here to jump to our locally led courses.

Primary Courses

Primary Computing Teaching certificate

Through the required training and activities, you can complete the Primary Computing Teaching certificate, demonstrating your commitment to improving computing education in your school.

  • The CPD Certificate for Primary school staff is accredited by the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT).
  • There are two learning pathways with a variety of courses options within each pathway
  • You can complete all, or just a few depending on your needs

The two pathways are:

  1. Developing in the classroom
  2. Specialising or leading

You will also get the opportunity to engage with the wider support network available in primary computing.

You can visit TeachComputing.org to register for the Primary Certificate.

You can return to this website at any time to access our locally led courses (i.e. led by a locally based PDL who can also help you individually or as a group of staff or schools).

Or, you can go back to TeachComputing.org and join courses led (remote or face-to-face) by other PDLs in other parts of the country.

Accredited CPD

Physical Computing Kit Loan

Borrowing physical computing kit...

We have a range of kit you can book and borrow for your school or trust.

Pop over to our kit booking page to find out more.

Physical Kit Loan

Not sure where to Start?

Here are some Quick steps to help you get Going with the CQF (Computing Quality Framework) Self-Review which helps to clarify your needs...

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Visit the CQF Online Self-Review Tool Website

The CQF is a great place to start, as it will quickly give you ideas as to what type of support you need. It is an ongoing self-review and record of development. Once you’re registered, you can revisit as often as you like. 

Click here to visit the CQF Website.

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Register your school

The easy sign up process will find your school from some short prompts, and enable you to start the online review.

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THREE

Assign a level for each of the seven strands of the CQF

Ideally, in conjunction with senior leadership, add a self-grade level for each of the seven self-review strands (level 1-5 / each level has a descriptor).

Don’t worry – this is NOT going to be assessed or used to judge in any way unless you think you’re at the stage where you’d like to be assessed for the Computing Quality Mark.

This is to kickstart the process and give you access to a whole range of free resources that are targeted to suit your needs.

(e.g. some schools assign a low level, and then review and change the levels over a longer period of time as they review and develop.)

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Add text to each level

Add some text in each of the level boxes to reflect where you think you are at this point. This is just to get started and trigger access to a whole range of FREE resources.

Don’t worry,  this is just to get started and you can add and change text in these boxes over time as you self-review in future.

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Choose Courses, Direct Support or Other Resources

From the website, choose one or a combination of the following, or contact us for a one-to-one or group chat to help us direct resources and CPD to suit you.


Courses

– Primary specific ‘Locally led’ courses can be accessed from this page and are usually reflective of local needs – often covering similar areas for improvement identified by the CQF self-review.

–  If there are no courses currently scheduled, you can go to https://teachcomputing.org/courses, choose a course and ask us to run it at a date and time to suit you.


Direct School Support from a PDL Expert

– Contact by email:  [email protected] or go to the ‘Our Team‘ page to email an individual PDL.

We can help you with…

– Self-review against the CQF as an ongoing process

– Making sense of any aspect of the programme

– Understanding where you are in development terms, in relation to other schools from across the country

– Access to industry specialista to support careers development (STEM Ambassadors)

– Choosing or understanding which courses help with what aspect of development

– Action planning

– Curriculum review

– Liaising with department members

– Supporting non-specialist computing teachers

– Developing subject leadership

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Our Suffolk and Colchester Led Face-to-Face Primary Courses

These are courses led by one of our locally based PDLs (Professional Development Leads), usually face-to-face and created to suit local needs. If there are no locally led courses to suit, visit teachcomputing.org/courses for the full range of remote and face-to-face courses.

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Email [email protected] to request support