This page provides resources for teaching ICT through the QCA schemes of work. For embedding ICT in other subjects, please click on the blue subject tab above.

Download all the adapted QCA units for ICT

National Curriculum in Action Website
This website uses pupils' work and case study material to show what the National Curriculum in ICT looks like in practice.

Download the ICT Schemes of Work

Year 1
	An introduction to modelling		Using a word bank
	The information around us		Labelling and classifying
	Representing information graphically : pictograms		Understanding instructions and making things happen

Year 2
	Writing stories: communicating information using text		Creating pictures
	Finding information		Routes: controlling a floor turtle
	Questions and answers

Year 3
	Combining text and graphics		Manipulating sound
	Introduction to databases		Exploring simulations
	E-mail

Year 4
	Writing for different audiences		Repeating patterns
	Branching databases		Collecting and presenting information: questionnaires and pie charts
	Modelling effects on screen

Year 5
	Graphical modelling		Analysing data and asking questions: using complex searches
	Evaluating information, checking accuracy and questioning plausibility		Introduction to spreadsheets
	Controlling devices		Monitoring environmental conditions and changes

Year 6
	Multimedia Presentation		Spreadsheet Modelling
	Control and monitoring - What happens when...?		Using the internet to search large databases and to interpret information

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