Year One
 Introduction to modelling
 Using a word bank
 Information around us
 Labelling and classifying
 Representing information
graphically – pictograms
 Understanding instruction
and making things
happen
Skills:
Use mouse to move and place
items accurately on the screen
Use simple tools in a painting
package
Print work
Add stamps/motifs or clip art to a
scene
Use keyboard
Select and listen to text from a
word bank
Use of a word bank
Use pictograms to answer simple
questions
Give instructions in correct order
Give instructions: directions
Give instructions: use unit lengths
Give instructions: in a sequence
Give instructions: read a set of
instructions, predict, follow and
test results
Year Four
 Writing for different
audiences
 Developing images using
repeated patterns
 Branching databases
 Collecting and presenting
information:
questionnaires and pie
charts
 Modelling effects on
screen
Skills
Alter font size and use effects
(bold, underline)
Delete and replace text (insert and
overtype)
Use spell checker
Use find and replace
Use stamps and / or copy tool
Alter size of brush tool
Select areas, copy and resize them
Use reflection,
Use SAVE AS to keep drafts
Search branching database
Year Two
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Writing stories
Creating pictures
The information around
us
Routes – controlling a
floor turtle
Questions and answers
Year Three
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Combining text and
graphics
Manipulating sound
Introduction to databases
Exploring simulations
E-mail (to include e-safety
guidelines)
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Skills
Use backspace key
Type in text, including space, use
shift key
Use return/enter key
Delete and insert text
Use simple mark making tools
Use SAVE AS
Use straight line, geometric shapes
and flood fill tools
Use spray tool
Use buttons to navigate CD-ROM
Use menus
Use index
Search using key words (including
reminders about e-safety)
Use hyperlinks
Use FD,BK,LT,RT
Enter sequence of instructions
Use repeat key to produce
symmetrical shapes
Use the search tool to find the
answer to simple questions
Skills
Alter font – type, size, colour
Amend text and save changes
Combine graphics and text
Use shift key for quotation,
question marks etc
Use equipment to record sound
samples
Use icons to arrange musical
phrases
Add a record to a data file
Answer simple questions matching
contents of a single field
Order records by a key field
Use database to produce bar
charts
Enter data into the simulation
Read e-mail (e-safety)
Annotate and reply
Use address book to send e-mail
Add an attachment
Year Five
Year Six
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Graphical modelling
Analysing data and asking
questions
Evaluating information,
checking accuracy and
questioning plausibility
Introduction to
spreadsheets
Controlling devices
Monitoring
environmental conditions
and changes
Skills
Move, rotate and re-size graphic
elements
Create objects with geometric
tools
Search using => and <=
Use AND in search criteria
Use OR
Skim read and sift information to
modify a search strategy
Check for text, data errors,
incorrect field types (e.g. girl when
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Multimedia Presentation
Spreadsheet Modelling
Control and Monitoring –
What happens when?
Using the internet to
search large databases
and interpret information
(to include e-safety
guidelines)
Skills
Evaluate and then design own
multimedia pages
Sample sounds and play them from
a button
Produce a diagram to show links
between pages
Create a presentation to include
images, sound and text
Identify formulae and enter into a
spreadsheet
Copy cells
Draw graph using spreadsheet
Change data and formulae to
answer ‘what if?’ questions
Create own branching data base in
groups
Design simple questionnaire to
record numbers, text and choices
Create pie charts
Create line graphs
Transfer floor turtle instructions to
the screen
Type commands in immediate
mode
List commands to produce a predrawn shape
Use repeat command
Use and change a pre-written
procedure
Write a procedure that uses other
procedures
Use repeat command and
procedures
it should be F)
Use graphs to error check
Enter labels and numbers
Enter formulae (=C2+C3)
Use SUM
Use spreadsheet to answer ‘what
if…?’ questions and check
predictions
Control simple devices with direct
instructions
Use simple procedures to control
more than one output
Use simple control language to
activate multiple devices
concurrently
Build a sequence of events to solve
a problem
Attach a sensor to a device
connected to a computer to take
readings
Alter program set-up for a
particular sensor, alter time span
of recording
Use IF… THEN…Use REPEAT
FOREVER
Use a light sensor
Use and program 2 inputs
Develop a system that controls
events in response to conditions
Access an internet site using a
favourites list
Print a page from the internet
Use a search engine to find
information
Use ‘AND’ in a search
Use hyperlinks to trail an idea
Type in a URL to locate a web page
To save and use pictures and text
and import into a document for a
presentation