ICT
Information & Communication Technology is an important part of life today. Children use ICT in most aspects of the curriculum but we use it as one of many teaching tools. In order that pupils can focus on the core content of a subject, ICT skills are taught as a discrete subject on the timetable. This allows them to focus on the maths or geography rather than how a spreadsheet works or how a data-logger is used.
Every classroom has its own PC and laptop computers are available for classroom use. There is an ICT lab with one computer per pupil in the prep department. The pre-prep has its own ICT lab with equipment positioned at a more appropriate height for young learners. All of these resources are networked between buildings and our super-fast internet connection allows securely filtered access to the web. Pupils have their own user areas on the school network and their own school email accounts, both of which can be accessed remotely from home.
Lessons are age appropriate with an emphasis on learning through a mixture of experimentation and direction. Pupils rapidly acquire the key skills that allow them to become autonomous in their use of ICT in support of other subjects in the curriculum. By the time they leave, pupils will, in addition to word-processing and DTP skills, have experience in image manipulation, spreadsheets, relational databases, multimedia, video, web creation and HTML.
