ICT

The Junior School have a purpose-built Computer Room, where there is a networked suite of PCs. Software and teaching are geared to the needs of our students.

Summary of ICT in the Junior School

• Finding, exploring, analysing, exchanging and presenting information responsibly and creatively
• Enabling rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures
• Microsoft-based curriculum supplemented by other age appropriate packages
• ‘Hands on’ approach.

Topics covered in Year 3

• Online safety
• Using MS PowerPoint to create presentations
• Touch Typing
• Sending emails
• Coding
• Introduction to MS Teams

Topics covered in Year 4

• Consolidation and development of Year 3 topics
• Online safety
• Simple programming using the Logo language
• Coding
• Identifying reliable internet sources for research
• MS Word and PowerPoint
• Sending emails with attachments
• MS Teams

Topics covered in Year 5

• Consolidation and development of Year 4 topics
• Online safety
• Creating a digital game
• Data handling and spreadsheets using MS Excel
• Coding
• Research and disseminating information
• Sending emails with attachments
• MS Teams

Topics covered in Year 6

• Consolidation and development of Year 5 topics
• Online safety
• Using spreadsheets to model real-life situations whilst considering solutions that can be applied to real life
• Designing, writing and debugging programs that accomplish specific goals
• Using coding skills to create a text-based adventure game
• Sending emails with attachments
• Completing challenges using MS Teams

Students are encouraged to use the ICT skills they acquire in their work across the curriculum with consultation from their form and subject teachers. ICT prepares students to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied and developing technology.