Barefoot Computing helping primary school teachers

About Us

Barefoot Computing delivering digital dreams to the classroom

Barefoot empowers primary school teachers across the UK to deliver the computing curriculum brilliantly with free workshops and live lessons, helpful online guides and engaging lessons. Barefoot is on the side of teachers; helping them inspire pupils to think, learn and thrive in a digital world.

Barefoot was set up in 2014 to prepare primary school teachers for the changing computing curriculum by BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT and their Computing at School network, with funding from The Department for Education.

Between 2015 and 2021, BT and Computing at School partnered to continue the programme, reaching 3 million pupils and over 85,000 teachers in the majority of primary schools across the UK. With further support from partners, including Ciena and the Scratch Foundation, Barefoot has now reached over 115,000 teachers in 85% of UK primary schools.

Learn more about our work and how our supporters are creating lasting impact

Delivered in four ways

Lessons

Over 100 cross-curricular lesson plans and engaging resources. Developed by teachers and backed by research, they bring computing to life in the classroom – with or without a computer.

Live Lessons

Barefoot live lessons welcome teachers and their classes to join interactive video calls, where pupils are guided through engaging activities to develop their computational thinking, coding, and digital skills. Each session connects learning across the curriculum, enabling pupils to practise and apply their skills together in real time.

Workshops

Our CPD workshops are designed to build teachers’ subject knowledge and confidence, making it easy to get started with Barefoot. These interactive webinars, delivered by experienced volunteers, cover key topics such as Computational Thinking, Programming, and Early Years Computing.

Online Guides

A number of helpful online guides which help primary teachers quickly and easily improve their computer science subject knowledge and confidence, with clear definitions and examples. Always jargon-free!