Michaelmas Term: Combining text & graphics: Learning how to add pictures and basic formatting to text. Includes designing a Christmas card.
Lent Term: Writing for different audiences: Word processing poems and designing posters
Summer Term: Controlling a floor turtle: Learning how to programme using a sequence of instructions. Apply knowledge using both a Floor Roamer and simulation software.
Michaelmas Term: Multimedia Research: Learning how to use CD ROMS and the internet to find appropriate information.
Lent Term: Collecting and presenting information: Creating bar charts, line graphs and pie charts using computer software.
Summer Term: Graphical Modelling: Creating pictures using geometric shapes. Designing 3D animals.
Michaelmas Term: Using Email: Appreciating the advantages and disadvantages of Email. Understand the dangers. Emailing protocol and sending attachments.
Lent Term: Introducing databases: Learning how to enter, sort and retrieve data.
Summer Term: PowerPoint Presentations: Learning different skills in designing PowerPoint presentations, including animation, images and sound.
Michaelmas Term: Multimedia Presentation: Learn the importance of website design and user friendliness. Design a website of their own choice using multiple pages.
Lent Term: Spreadsheet Modelling: Writing formulae in spreadsheets in order to solve mathematical problems.
Summer Term: Team challenge: In groups, use I.C.T. skills necessary to set up a fictional company in order to address the set criteria.