Holy Family Catholic Primary

Year 1

National Curriculum objectives:

Computer Science CS: Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions Create and debug simple programs Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs

Information Technology IT: Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content

Digital Literacy DL: Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies Learning Objectives Key Skills Current Programmes available Holy Family Catholic Primary

Understanding Technology  Continue to develop their familiarity with a computer and  To become skilful in using different tools to control keyboards BBC Dance mat technology.  Continue to develop their skills in using a mouse and/or  To understand the purpose of, and begin to use a range of trackpad to control a computer/laptop. different technology.  Begin to develop their typing speed, using a range of games  To begin to develop typing speed and accuracy to enable and programs in school. Children should also be encouraged independent access to a computer. to play these games at home.  Continue exposure to a range of technology, including cameras, tablets, microphones/recording devices and computers. Using Internet  Select appropriate buttons to navigate web sites or stored  To understand that information comes from different sources information e.g. books, web sites, TV etc  Begin to understand that computers use icons, menus,  To understand that ICT can give access quickly to a wide hyperlinks to provide information and instructions e.g. Select a variety of resources specific part of the CBeebies site to find an activity  To talk about their use of ICT and the Internet and other  Access different types of information from different sources methods to find information e.g. using CD players, web sites, TV, video, DVD etc  To be able to explore a variety of electronic information as These skills rely on the teacher directing children to specific content. It is not expected for children to do open searching at this stage. part of a given topic  To know buttons/icons can represent different functions e.g. record, pause, play

Communicating and Collaborating  Contribute ideas to a class email and together respond to Class email  To start to understand that messages can be sent messages- this can be to real life of ‘fictitious’ characters. electronically over distances.

Creating and publishing  Add text to photographs, graphics, drawings and sound using a Purple mash: 2publish  To use technology to combine text with photographs, graphics computer. 2pain and drawings.  Use simple authoring tools to create their own content and 2create a story  Textease CT: To create their own text based content, including adding basic begin to add basic effects to sections of text, changing the effects to sections of text. Paint font size and colour. Presenter BlackCat: Holy Family Catholic Primary

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Digital Media  Use a computer to compose and record basic rhythms. Purple mash:  To know they can explore sound and music using technology and  Continue to take photographs for a range of different 2ecplore that they can create sound using computer programs. purposes. 2beat  2sequence To know they can record sound using ICT that can be stored  Begin to record video and played back Begin to record sounds using a range of different tools. ipads  To take photographs for a range of different purposes.  To understand that video can be recorded using technology and to begin to record video.  To understand that a range of different technology can be used to record sounds.

Using Data  Use ICT to sort objects into groups according to a give Purple mash: 2count  To use ICT to begin to organise items. criteria, or criteria which the child identifies 2investigate  To begin to use technology to create graphs and themselves. 2graph pictograms, recognising there is a link between data  Begin to use technology to create graphs and pictograms. collected and the information presented on screen. Programming and Control  Explore a range of control toys and devices Bee Bots Floor Turtle  To understand that devices respond to commands  Begin to develop computational thinking by following Pixie  To begin to understand how a computer processes instructions instructions to move around a course and creating a series of and commands (computational thinking) instructions to move their peers around a course Purple mash:  To understand that they can programme a simple sequence of  Explore outcomes when individual buttons are pressed on 2go commands into a programmable robot or toy to send it on a robots, such as floor turtles and combine these together to route draw simple shapes or follow a route. Holy Family Catholic Primary

Modelling and simulations  Understand that computers and technology can be used to Textease CT: Paint  To understand computers can represent real or fantasy represent and model situations. situations  Use an art package or drag and drop software to create a Purple mash:  To understand computer representations allows the user to representation of a real or a fantasy situation 2paint make choices and that different decisions produce different  Explore a simulation to support a given topic and talk about outcomes what happens and why