Computing At School (CAS)
The Computing at School (CAS) promotes the teaching of computer science at school. CAS was born out of our excitement with our discipline, combined with a serious concern that many students are being turned off computing by a combination of factors that have conspired to make the subject seem dull and pedestrian. Our goal is to put the excitement back into Computing at school and encourage and equip school staff to offer the best possible computing curriculum for all.
CAS is a grass roots organisation, whose energy, creativity, and leadership comes from its members. We are a collaborative partner with the BCS through the BCS Academy of Computing, and also work with other industry partners. Membership is open to everyone, and is very broad, including teachers, parents, governors, exam boards, industry, professional societies, and universities. We speak for the discipline of computing at school level, inc. FE, and not for any particular interest group.
Benefits of membership:
CAS is working at many levels, including
- Directly supporting ICT and Computing teachers who are excited by computing, by providing them with teaching material, training, online communities, newsletters and the opportunity to meet with like-minded colleagues at our annual conference.
- Working at an institutional level, for example by encouraging the developments of GCSEs in Computing.
- Advocacy at national policy level; for example, submitting evidence through BCS to the Department for Education‘s Curriculum and Assessment Review.
