How Sumner Primary built a custom curriculum

A case study on sequencing courses to match a school's own computational-thinking scope and sequence. Rather than adopting our default course order, Sumner Primary's lead teacher worked with us to remap units against the school's existing digital technologies progression, year by year.

The result was a custom sequence that introduces loops and conditionals a term earlier than our default track, because the school's maths curriculum already covers the underlying logic by that point. Students arrived at each RobotMagic unit with the conceptual groundwork already in place.

We built the remapping using the course-authoring tools in the teacher dashboard, which let staff reorder, hide, or duplicate units without touching the underlying content. That meant the change could be made by one teacher in an afternoon, rather than requiring a curriculum committee.

Since rolling out the custom sequence, Sumner has reported smoother progression between year levels and fewer students repeating introductory units out of habit rather than need. We're now working with two more Christchurch schools on similar customisations.

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