// Primary Computing Curriculum · Reception–Year 6 · Free Y4 unit now — full scheme August
Children are growing up in a world being reshaped by AI. Most schools are teaching computing as if nothing has changed. Cipher is different.
// Why Cipher exists
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Children who don't will be shaped by it. The gap between those two groups is forming right now, in primary school.
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Every lesson asks children to do something real — experiment, debate, catch AI being wrong, build something a real audience will see.
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Slides, resources, assessment — all built in. A curriculum that demands heroic effort from teachers doesn't get taught.
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By secondary school, habits of uncritical AI use are already forming. Cipher catches children before those habits set.
"Children who understand AI will shape the future. Children who don't will be shaped by it. Cipher exists to make sure every child is in the first group."
// Year 4 · AI Literacy Unit · Free Now
Download the Y4 unit now. All year groups free from August 2026.
Lesson 1
What is AI, really? Children discover how it works by experimenting with prompts across 10 real-world topics.
60 MIN · AI Literacy
Lesson 2
Introducing RACE — Role, Audience, Context, Extras. Children write their first structured prompt and feel the difference.
60 MIN · AI Literacy
Lesson 3
A real scientific experiment. Children improve one prompt three times, measure the difference and write a conclusion.
60 MIN · AI Literacy
Lesson 4
AI told us some facts. Some are wrong. Children investigate hallucination and learn to verify AI claims using real sources.
60 MIN · AI Literacy + Citizenship
Lesson 5
Is using AI cheating? Children debate the hard questions and write the class AI agreement — their rules, their words.
60 MIN · Citizenship
Live Brief
A real project. Teams build an AI prompt guide for their school and present it. Best guides go on the school website.
90 MIN · All Strands
// Full Scheme · Free August 2026
// Assessment & Evidence · Coming September 2027
When the Cipher platform launches in 2027, every unit comes with a built-in portfolio and assessment system. Children capture their work lesson by lesson. Teachers assess it at a glance. Computing finally has the evidence system it deserves.
Children record a 60-second voice note and upload a screenshot at the end of every lesson. Done in under 2 minutes.
See your whole class at once. Every child, every lesson. Coloured dots show completion and assessment status instantly.
Six learning objectives per unit. One click to mark each as Developing, Secure or Extending. Teacher note optional.
Every child's work travels with them through Year 1 to Year 6 — and into secondary school as a Digital Passport.
✕ No more big books. No more lost evidence.
Computing has always struggled to evidence learning the way other subjects can. Cipher solves that. Voice notes, screenshots, written reflections — all captured, all organised, all searchable. Ofsted-ready. Always.
Platform preview — launching September 2027
// Questions
// Built by a teacher
I've been teaching for over 15 years. I've been a computing lead for 14 of them. I've taught every year group from 1 to 6 and led curriculum design at my school.
The more I used AI in my own life, the more I realised something was wrong. I was having more and more conversations with children about AI — but we weren't teaching them how to use it. I was teaching Excel spreadsheets and Scratch games. Skills I'm not sure will exist in the form they're in today.
The existing computing schemes weren't built for this world. So I built one that was — in my classroom, with my children, lesson by lesson, week by week.
Every Cipher lesson has been trialled with real children. Not designed by a product team who've never stood in front of a class. Built by someone who lives the problem every week.
Six complete lessons. All slide decks, printable resources and activity sheets. Download now, teach it Monday — and get the full scheme for every year group free from August 2026.
⭐ All year groups free August 2026 — ready for September starters