Becta: Curriculum entitlement documents (primary)
Becta has produced a set of documents which exemplify a pupil's entitlement
to use ICT across the curriculum.
Below are the documents for primary education. You can access the documents for secondary education here.
Art and design
ICT in primary art and design: A pupil's entitlement (document
1)
This document decribes a lesson designed to teach children
about:
- the variety of resources that can be used in the creation of art
- selecting and organising information.
ICT in primary art and design: A pupil's entitlement (document
2)
This document describes lessons aimed at helping children
to:
- explore and develop ideas
- make choices
- take risks and demonstrate creativity.
ICT in primary art and design: A pupil's entitlement (document
3)
This document describes lessons aimed at helping children
to:
- develop confidence and work independently
- present work in a variety of ways
- improve efficiency.
Citizenship
ICT in primary citizenship: A pupil's entitlement
This document describes a series of lessons on a variety of
topics, such as:
- saving the rainforest
- thinking about Remembrance Day
- the power of voting.
Design and technology
ICT in primary design and technology: A pupil's
entitlement
This document describes lessons such as:
- designing a box to be used for food packaging
- making bread
- designing and making personalised T-shirts
- building a model Ferris wheel.
English
ICT in primary English: A pupil's entitlement
This document contains ideas for integrating ICT into English
lessons, such as:
- creating digital stories
- examining the devices used to record television broadcasts
- using digital video and stills cameras to improve children's drama skills.
Geography
ICT in primary geography: A pupil's entitlement (document
1)
This document describes lessons designed to help children:
- understand maps and develop their estimation skills for distance
- use geographical vocabulary and secondary sources of information
- explain why places are the way they are
- use fieldwork techniques.
ICT in primary geography: A pupil's entitlement (document
2)
This document describes lessons designed to help children:
- understand how people can manage sustainability
- recognise contrast between two localities
- recognise how people can improve the environment or damage it.
History
ICT in primary history: A pupil's entitlement (document
1)
This document describes lessons designed to help children
understand events, people and changes from the past, for example:
- children research events in the life of John Lennon
- children talk about the difference between their homes and ones from the past
- children access official records to discover the history of local people who had died in the First and Second World Wars.
ICT in primary history: A pupil's entitlement (document
2)
This document describes lessons designed to help
children:
- communicate and share knowledge
- demonstrate creativity
- exercise choice and work independently.
Mathematics
ICT in primary mathematics: A pupil's entitlement
This document describes lessons designed to help
children:
- learning from feedback
- observing patterns and seeing connections
- exploring data
- 'teach' the computer.
Modern foreign languages
ICT in primary modern foreign languages: A pupil's
entitlement
This document describes lessons designed to help children:
- build confidence
- develop listening skills
- tell stories.
Music
ICT in primary music: A pupil's entitlement
This document describes a number of lessons where ICT is used to
help children develop their music skills, including:
- Kindergarten karaoke
- exploring pentatonic scales
- pattern building.
Physical education
ICT in primary physical education: A pupil's entitlement
This document describes lessons for both classroom-based
learning and outdoor activities, including:
- using websites to support teaching and learning
- using pedometers in physical activities.
Religious education
ICT in primary religious education: A pupil's entitlement (document
1)
This document describes lessons which help children develop
an understanding of:
- places of worship
- diverse belief systems
- inspirational people in religion.
ICT in primary religious education: A pupil's entitlement (document
2)
This document describes lessons which help children develop
an understanding of:
- the impact of religion on people's lives
- social issues, such as poverty
- death and the afterlife.
Science
ICT in primary science: A pupil's entitlement
This document describes lessons that focus on the use of
ICT to:
- provide information and support fieldwork
- record information and share it with others
- simulate experiments and provide models or demonstrations.
Last updated: 04 August 2009
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