ICT

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

 

Aims

  • Use ICT to enhance, enrich and extend learning.
  • Encourage pupils to recognise the appropriate uses of ICT, and be confident with ICT.
  • Increase pupil motivation and self-esteem by improving the presentation of their work, particularly for those pupils with special educational needs.
  • Use ICT to deliver the National Curriculum effectively.
  • Allow pupils to adapt to the rapid technology changes taking place in society.
  • Help pupils to understand the consequences of ICT for the individual and society.
  • Improve pupil's understanding of the ethical implications of ICT.
  • Use ICT to improve the learning experiences of pupils with special educational needs or physical handicaps.
  • Our aim is to make computers readily available to staff and pupils in all departments for class and individual work. Our educational aims will be to use computers in the field of information and communications technology.
  • Our aim is not to see ICT as a subject on its own but as a tool that can enhance and further the work of all the subject departments across the curriculum. We should see ICT as an 'enabling' technology. All pupils are taught ICT as a discrete subject at KS3 and KS4. Departments use ICT in their subject areas for delivery and enhancement of their subject matter.

 

Objectives

In order to achieve these aims, the School Curriculum will allow pupils to:

 

  • Develop their ICT capability through discrete ICT lessons.
  • Gain experience of ICT, as appropriate, through subject specific activities in a variety of contexts.
  • Develop ICT related skills and encourage their use within the secondary curriculum.
  • Experience a minimum entitlement regarding ICT.
  • Collect, organise and analyse information stored electronically.
  • Critically assess the content and presentation of information received from a variety of sources.
  • Carry out computer-based investigations.
  • Use ICT to sense and control environmental variables.
  • Explore computer-based simulations.
  • Use ICT in creative and aesthetic activities.
  • Critically discuss the social issues arising from the use of ICT.