Areas of ICT

• Communication
• Control and the Environment
• Handling Data
• Modelling and Simulation
• Research and E-Safety Awareness

Each of the above titles provides a link to the specific area within ICT shown below.

Communication

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Keyboard Skills

Word Processing

Word Banks

Multimeadia Presentations

Mind Maps

Web Publishing

Digital Recording

Podcasts

Sound and music

Video conferencing

Control and the Environment

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Remote Control Toys

Bee Bots

Pixie

Roamer

Fairground

Traffic Lights

Logo

Scratch

Data Logging

NXT Lego

Handling Data

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

• Sorting - Reception,



• Pictograms - Reception, Year 1, Year 2



• Bar charts - Year 1, Year 2, Year 3



• Pie charts - Year 3,



• Spreadsheets - Year 3, Year 4



• Branching Databases Year 4,



• Databases- Year 3, Year 5



• Investigation: Using and manipulating Data - Year 4, Year 6

Modelling and Simulation

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Click, Drag and Drop

Graphical Modelling- Shapes and drawing tools

Graphical modelling-Space and design

Programmable Toys-(Links to Control)

Online Simulations (Links to Control)

Simulations- PC Platform Games, Handheld consoles, Gaming consoles,

Adventure games-Cause, Effect and making choices

Building and developing Adventure Games

Research and E-Safety Awareness

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Internet use

Web research- Advanced search tools

Search Engines

E-safety

Validating websites

Online databases Vs Specific databases (Cd-Roms, Educational or subject specific Databases or manually created)

Maps and locations

Digital Use-Images, Sound and Media