ICT
ICT at Spring Bank
At Spring Bank the ICT curriculum is designed to develop our children’s skills in the following areas:
- Text and Graphics
- Data Handling
- Digital Media
- Control
- Internet/web2
- Presenting
Right from Reception the children will be taught skills within each area and then be given opportunities to use and develop them throughout their school life.
Each year group is designed to build upon the previous years experience allowing the children to progress through each strand and achieve a good understanding of current ideas and equipment.
Text and Graphics
This strand covers things like using a basic word or picture bank, creating text and images for a specific audience, capturing images from a variety of sources and manipulating them for effect and making more sophisticated linked presentations to include images and sounds.
Data Handling
This strand covers things like collecting basic data and using ICT to present it as a pictogram, inputting data into a data-base and interrogating it, creating spreadsheets and adding formula to calculate specific outcomes.
Digital Media
This strand covers things like taking photographs, recording sounds, downloading images and adding captions, basic storyboarding and animation with a script and narration, manipulating sounds and filming techniques.
Control
This strand covers things like using simple remote control and programmable toys, creating a series of simple instructions, testing and amending a series of instructions, using an on-screen robot to give directional instructions, using simple procedures, combining sequences of instructions and procedures to turn devices on/off or to control events.
Internet/web2
This strand covers things like clicking on hyperlinks or pictures, talking about online safety, using the forward/back buttons, emailing with safety, using a keyword search, contribute to a class Blog, downloading and uploading from/to a website.
Presenting
This strand covers things like talking about a teacher made sequence of images, creating a class presentation, making a presentation for a specific audience, creating non-linear links, preparing and presenting appropriate digital resources from a variety of sources, personal presenting skills.