Fact · Typing and writing speed
The statutory computing programme of study for England asks Key Stage 1 pupils to use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content”
National curriculum in England: computing programmes of study, Department for Education, GOV.UK, 2013, Key stage 1 programme of study.
Open the original- What it measures
- This is the Key Stage 1 section of the programme. The Key Stage 2 section asks pupils to use search technologies effectively and to select, use and combine software, and it names no typing or keyboard skill.
- What it does not show
- The text names no typing or keyboard skill at Key Stage 1 or 2, so typing is not a required outcome there. Schools may teach it anyway, and academies do not have to follow the national curriculum.