{"id":2,"date":"2014-03-14T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:58:55","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the Department of Computing Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our aims are to develop, maintain and stimulate pupils&#8217; curiosity, interest and enjoyment in Computing and to encourage pupils to have open, enquiring minds and to perceive Computing in the context of a wider body of knowledge, skills and vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Our view is that pupils should ideally become autonomous users of Computing with the associated skills supporting life long study, the pursuit of personal interests and prospective employment in a modern technological society.To enable pupils to acquire appropriate, transferable Computing skills, knowledge and understanding \u2013 progression must feature in the acquisition of Computing skills.<\/p>\n<p>All staff should then feel confident that pupils have a basic level of Computing capability which can be applied to pupil\u2019s learning in a specific area of the Curriculum. Pupils should feel confident enough with their transferable skills that they are encouraged to use unfamiliar software.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harris (Principal Teacher Curriculum &#8211; Computing Science)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Department of Computing Science Our aims are to develop, maintain and stimulate pupils&#8217; curiosity, interest and enjoyment in Computing and to encourage pupils to have open, enquiring minds and to perceive Computing in the context of a wider body of knowledge, skills and vocabulary. Our view is that pupils should ideally become autonomous users of Computing with the associated skills supporting life long study, the pursuit of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHSComputingScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}