Children in Primary 6 receive a 1-hour Digital Learning lesson per week. These lessons cover Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy and are planned to ensure that children are equipped to use technology out with the Digital Learning classroom and to support their own learning across the curriculum. Technology is used develop communication skills, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.
Children create a 3D Jacobite battle scene and write a code to animate the battle. Coding tasks are often collaborative, sharing ideas
and supporting each other in abstraction and decomposition to solve creative challenges.
Skill areas to be developed include:
- Emailing - using address books, adding attachments and replying appropriately to messages
- Creating, capturing and manipulating sounds, text and images to communicate experiences, ideas and information in creative and engaging ways
- Computational thinking and coding
- Speed and accuracy when touch typing
- Using specific search criteria and selecting information more precisely from a range of online sources
- Referencing searched material
- Creating formulae in Excel and seeing the effect of these on the numbers in their spreadsheet
- Working collaboratively on shared PowerPoint presentations in Office 365 and Sharepoint
e-Safety
As part of their e-Safety programme, the children will attend workshops run by Childnet. They will also take part in activities and discussions about social and communication apps and learn about looking more critically at the information they come across online.
Google's 'Be Internet Legends' program forms part of the online safety curriculum for Primary 6.
Accounts
All children in Primary 6 at ESMS are provided with their own laptop which provides all the children with the same experience of using technology wherever they are. They have an Office 365 account, which allows them to open and create documents and presentations, email, work on One Note and contribute to collaborative tasks from anywhere. Having their own laptop enables them to make use of assistive technology and personalise their learning experience.