National Curriculum Programme of Study

Key Stage 1
National Curriculum Programme of Study says that pupils should be taught to:

1.a) use a variety of IT equipment and software, including microcomputers and various keyboards, to carry out a variety of functions in a range of contexts.

1.c) examine and discuss their experiences of IT, and look at the outside world.

Pupils should be taught to:

3.c) use IT-based models or simulations to explore aspects of real and imaginary situations.

Key Stage 2
National Curriculum Programme of Study states that pupils should be given opportunities to:

1.a) use IT to explore and solve problems in the context of work across a variety of subjects.

1.b) use IT to further their understanding of information that they have retrieved and processed.

1.c) discuss their experiences of using IT and assess its value in their working practices.

1.d) investigate parallels with the use of IT in the wider world, consider the effects of such uses, and compare them with other methods.

Pupils should be taught to:

2.a) use IT equipment and software to communicate ideas and information in a variety of forms, incorporating text, graphs, pictures and sound, as appropriate, showing sensitivity to their audience.

3.c) explore the effect of changing variables in simulations and similar packages, to ask and answer questions of the type: "What would happen if…?"

3.d) recognise patterns and relationships in the results obtained from IT-based models or simulations, predicting the outcomes of different decisions that could be made.

Information Technology Key Skills