INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Our school has an extensive range of resources for implementing this exciting area of the National Curriculum. All children have daily access to desktop PCs and within the year group. In addition to this we are well equipped with other facilities such as a digital video camera, TVs and videos, digital cameras, digital projectors, control and monitoring equipment, a vast range of software and a highly specified and modern computer suite containing 15 networked PCs and a scanner. We also have laptops available, to be used throughout the school. Recently the whole school site has been upgraded to both wireless and hardwired network and internet access. Every classroom has a brand new interactive whiteboard.
The children have weekly sessions in the computer suite to develop their knowledge and use of relevant software packages including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Powerpoint and MS Publisher. The skills they learn also include the use of the Internet and E-mail. We encourage the children to use and expand these skills in different aspects of their education.
We are committed to developing ICT Skills for all the children and to using ICT to enrich all other areas of the curriculum. An example of this is our involvement in the ‘Sonic Postcards’ project which gained national recognition and is now being used as a case study in good practice across the East Midlands.