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ICT in Key Stage 3

Your child will be expected to show more sophisticated skill in choosing their sequences of instructions to produce precise outcomes when using control devices. He or she will be taught to understand how ICT devices with sensors can be used to monitor and measure external events and to be critical about their work in order to make improvements.

By the end of the key stage some children will be able to refine their work by the way it is presented to different audiences or by purposefully manipulating rules when working with control systems to produce alternative outcomes.

 

Lesson examples

A group of Year 7 pupils are introduced to the school intranet and asked to create guidelines for using the system. The guidelines could take the form of a desktop-published handbook or a multimedia presentation. The class learns how to log on to the network, launch applications, access shared files and save work into their own area.

Revamping the way a holiday company manages its bookings and customers was a project undertaken by a group of Year 8s. They designed a corporate image, ways to automate the booking system to increase efficiency and then presented their ideas to the fictional company. One pupil chose a car dealer company for a long-term Year 9 project to develop and implement an ICT system for a fictional business. The pupils learnt to use relational databases, mail merge in the design of the system, and to plan the project using milestones and deadlines.

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Get ahead at home

  • If you can, try to provide opportunities for your child to use a wider range of information communication technology, such as keyboards, remote control devices, recording equipment or even doing the shopping for you on the internet - although you may not want to enter your card details yourself!
  • Encourage your child to make the most of the computer to improve the presentation of homework or course by using text, graphs, pictures, sound or video and so forth. Remember you can use the computer at the local library if you do not have one at home.
  • Researching up-to-date information from secondary sources like the internet or a multimedia encyclopaedia can make a difference to marks. However, remember to talk to your child about dangers of copying other people's work.