National Curriculum Programme of Study

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:

3.a) create, test, modify and store sequences of instructions to control events.

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…?"

Information Technology Key Skills