Category Archives: School

Here is my “Long Term Plan” for ICT

It is a single sheet showing the distribution of “Units” across the year, for Years 2 to 8.  It does not cover Reception and the Year 1 Classes because their ICT is taught by their class teachers and it needs to fit into their Thematic approach. Each class get two 40 minute lessons per week.  Year 7 & 8 have lessons that alternate each term with Music, so they get one half term of 80 minute lessons per term. I used the Warringhton ICT SoW as a framework to provide a “spread” of skill areas, some of the ideas from here and here.

Up next time will be the Medium Term plans.

I’ve got four projects going on which will need whole Staff input in September.  I thought I’d share them and how I’ll tackle them in different ways.

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I’ve been spending money on Think Geek for my ICT Classrooms in the new term.  We’ve got three; my own magnificent palatial shrine to ICT which is the size of two normal classrooms, our Media Center which is the same size and is also our library. Our final ICT Room is in the science department and is a snug and very traditionally laid out IT Room.

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For Programming enthusiasts it’s considered the most important possible thing you could learn in the field of ICT.  The earliest users of Steam Engines were of necessary Engineers.  The earliest users of the motor car were Mechanics, mostly because the earliest vehicles with an internal combustion engine were incredibly unreliable.  The PC was pretty much invented by hobbists, the first personal computers were sold as kits or schematics to be assembled by the super keen.  The first programs on these machines was shared as raw print-outs of computer code so all of the early users of personal computers had to be programmers, and thus understand concepts like Registers, Assembler and all that good stuff. Continue reading →

Welcome to my website. I’ve made some changes to how it looks and have decided to return to a spot of blogging. Not sure how long this theme will last but I’ve got high hopes for it.