National Curriculum Programme of Study

Key Stage 1
National Curriculum Programme of Study states that pupils should be given opportunities 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.b) explore the use of computer systems and control in everyday life.

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

Pupils should be taught to:

2.b) enter and store information.

2.c) retrieve, process and display information that has been stored.

3.a) recognise that control is integral to many everyday devices.

3.b) give direct signals or commands that produce a variety of outcomes, and describe the effects of their actions.

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 organise, re-organise and analyse ideas and information.

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….?"

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