National Curriculum Programme of Study

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

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

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

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

1d) 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:

2b) use IT equipment and software to organise, reorganise and analyse ideas and information.

2c) select suitable information and media, and classify and prepare information for processing with IT, checking for accuracy.

2d) interpret, analyse and check the plausibility of information held on IT systems, and select the elements required for particular purposes, considering the consequences of any errors.

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

3d) 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