Information and Communication Technology provides an opportunity and entitlement for pupils to appreciate, learn and use modern technological tools in order to gather
information and present that information using technical processing skills.

General Aims

To acknowledge and skills necessary for ICT capability.

To use ICT tools and information sources to find, analyse, process and present information.

To model and sequence events

To use information sources and ICT tools to solve problems.

To use ICT to support learning in a variety of contexts.

To understand the implications of ICT for working life and society.

To be aware of E Safety.

Timetable Allocation

All years:

          One hour per week.

          Pupils have additional time built into the schemes of work in other subjects.

How are pupils grouped?

          Pupils are grouped in mixed ability classes with one pupil per computer.

What are the National Curriculum Attainment Targets?

          Information and Communication Technology.

How do we ensure your child is developing & progressing?

ICT as a subject uses the QCA and the latest strategy scheme of work. Each module is marked to set criteria given to each pupil that corresponds to a National Curriculum level and a level of progress expected for the age of the pupil. Targets for improvement are given on each piece of work.

Homework

No formal homework is set although some research is often required. Various tasks may therefore be set as homework.
Summary Overview

Key Stage 2

Year 5

Creating pictures in the style of an impressionist painter (Revelation Natural Art).

Data work - using bar and pie charts to find things out (Spreadsheets).

Communicating information - using a word processor to write up results (Word processing).

Modelling effects on screen (Logo).

E-mail - sending and receiving (The Email Detectives)

E Safety

Data work - investigation into animal sizes and length of life (Spreadsheets).

Creating pictures using repeated patterns (Studies on the artist MC Escher).

Using the Internet to gather information.

Year 6

Computer graphics - a Tudor building (Revelation Natural Art).

Using the Internet and CD-ROMs to search for information and data on a curriculum topic (Internet) Tudor Inventories.

Using data and interpreting that data (Spreadsheets).

An introduction to spreadsheets to model ideas and to calculate.

Modelling effects on screen (Logo).

Controlling devices (Mission Control V.2).

Graphical modelling (designing a classroom) (SPEX).

Vector graphics (Draw+5).

Key Stage 3

Multimedia presentations - programming an adventure game.(Impress).

An Information point - Website creation(Publisher).

Processing text and images from activity week- (Impress)

 

Models - rules and investigations - (Using the Internet and Spreadsheets to discover the most economical way to shop).

Designing structure, capturing and presenting data ( Task to design a playground from gathered information).

 

Control - process and output - creating animations (Logo).

Year 8

Altering images - photo editing and presentation (Paint.net and PhotoStory)

 

Sequencing events - computer animation (Storytelling Alice)

Sequencing events - Flow diagrams (Flowol).

Information: Reliability, validity and bias. (Internet research and presentation).

 

Modelling ideas to find solutions - (Spreadsheets)

 

Website creation for an information point.

 

Crime solving - using data bases