ICT is increasingly used in all areas of modern life. This is true in business, schools and all major organizations. The ability to use ICT technology with confidence and skill is therefore desirable if students are to successfully engage with life during and after school.

Yearbook 2007-2008

Information and communication are also important concepts in themselves and our students need to be confident seekers and users of information within all of their school subjects. The ability to communicate effectively and to manipulate, evaluate and interpret data and text from a variety of sources is an important attribute and students need to acquire and develop skills that will make them competent in this area. This is the key aim of ICT lessons.

This year ICT classes have continued to concentrate on key software applications such as spreadsheets, databases, presentation, graphics and word processing. We have explored the nature of information (its meaning and value) and the ways in which information can be controlled. In year 7 and 8 students have carried out a range of tasks and produced work using a variety of these applications.

Typical short ICT projects involve using a number of applications in a simultaneous task so that students gain confidence and experience searching for and choosing relevant information and presenting this in a useful and effective way that is both relevant to the task and appropriate to the intended audience.

It is hoped that this experience in class can complement other ways in which students interact with computer and digital technology and that it be the first step on the road to becoming confident, intelligent users of ICT in a bid to meet the needs of an increasingly technological world.