At River Primary School we want our children to be masters of technology and not slaves to it. Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in their lives. Therefore, we want to model and educate our children on how to use technology positively, responsibly and safely. We want our children to be creators, not consumers and our broad curriculum, encompassing computer science, information technology and digital literacy, reflects this. We want our children to understand that there is always a choice with using technology and as a school we utilise technology to model positive use.

We recognise that the best prevention for a lot of issues we currently see with technology/social media is through education. Building our knowledge of this subject will allow children to effectively demonstrate their learning through creative use of technology. We recognise that technology can allow children to share their learning in creative ways.

We also understand the accessibility opportunities technology can provide for our children. Our knowledge-rich curriculum has to be balanced with the opportunity for children to apply their knowledge creatively, which will in turn help our children become skilful computer scientists. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible.