Nursery 

Reception

Using Technology

In this topic, children will :

• Know how to use the internet with adult supervision to find and retrieve information of interest to them
• Know how to retrieve content of interest to them e.g. recall trips and past events

Year 1 

Digital Writing

In this topic, children will :

• Know that a keyboard is used to enter text into a computer
• Know that the shift key changes the output of the key
• Know that information on a computer can be stored and shared

Year 2

Making Music

In this topic, children will :

• Know a computer can be used to create a piece of music for a purpose
• Know that there are patterns in music and consider how different musical sequences create different effects.

Year 3

Desktop Publishing 

In this topic, children will :

• Know landscape and portrait as page orientations
• Know how different font styles and effects are used for particular purposes
• Know that DTP pages can be structured with placeholders
• Know how to add images, manage layour, shift to add capitals and return to create paragraphs

Year 4

Photo Editing

In this topic, children will :

• Know how to use a computer to manipulate images by changing the composition, arranging cutting and cropping part of an image,
• Know how to make additions by drawing or adding an element.

Year 5

Vector Drawings

In this topic, children will :

• Know that an image comprises of separate objects
• Know that objects are layered and that vector images can be coloured without impact on quality
• Know how to create graphical objects, select shapes and combine objects by grouping and changing layers.

Year 6

3D Digital Drawings 

In this topic, children will :

• Know that structures can be broken down into a collection of 3D objects
• Know that 3D objects consist of length, width and height
• Know the similarities and difference between real life 3D and virtual 3D
• Know how to create a 3D object in a 3D space and be able to reposition, rotate, resize and recolour.