ICT (Junior - Academic Curriculum)

ICT is an integral part of teaching and learning in the Junior School. All of the classrooms have interactive whiteboards and these are used by both teachers and children during lessons, to provide information, to access the worldwide web, to complete interactive tasks and to play educational games and activities.

All children from Reception through to Form 2 (Year 6) have an hour long lesson in the ICT room each week, conducted by their class teacher or another teacher in the Junior School. In the Early Years children focus on using the keyboard and manipulating the mouse and complete a range of cross-curricular activities. In the Pre-Prep Department (Reception and Years 1 and 2) children are introduced to collecting, labelling and classifying information and representing information graphically. They learn how to communicate information using text, creating pictures, finding information using the internet and CD ROMs, and learn how to program and control a robot. The junior children expand on the skills they have acquired already. They are also introduced to email, databases and spreadsheets, and have experience measuring and recording data using a datalogger. They also learn how to record and use sounds, and create multi-media presentations.

There are many opportunities to incorporate their knowledge and skills across the curriculum, many ICT lessons are cross-curricular, and lessons in any subject can have an ICT link. The ICT suite is also available for the children at other times in the School day, including lunch times, and during ICT hobbies after School.