ICT Key Stage 2 / 3Transfer Projec

Project Details

The project is intended for pupils in Year 6 and for the first term in Year 7. The activity is based upon producing a short multimedia presentation about themselves. The children describe who they are and their aspirations for their forthcoming new school and to include screen shots of some of the ICT work they have done while in Year 5 and 6, which they particularly pleased about. The work is then emailed to the secondary school during the Summer Term. This work is amended during the first term in Year 7 by the children with further information added about how they are enjoying their new school and the work they are doing. The completed work is then emailed back to the originating school for the previous class teacher to review. The task is intended to be as open ended as possible to allow all abilities of children to participate. The project has scope to allow a range of ICT themes to be included, for example Data Handling and Modelling. Schools are encouraged to use the software that is familiar to the children and there are a range of templates provided in this web site to support pupils working at a range of levels (Textease Presenter, PowerPoint and Open Office formats available). The overall pupils ICT capability should be assessed by the teacher and pupil and added a the notes section of the final slide (or a additional slide in the case of Textease Presenter).

The aim therefore is to give the Year 6 children a project that is relevant to them, has a genuine audience and will allow them to demonstrate their ICT capability, i.e. the work produced must have been produced as independently as possible. The Secondary schools will benefit from this work as they will be able to see the range of ICT work that their pupils have done in the last year and an overall level for ICT and it helps the pupils to introduce themselves to their ICT teacher and classmates.

All the necessary resources can be found by following the Resources link above. This includes; presentation templates to help structure their work, summative and formative assessment guidance and evaluation criteria to help the pupils determine what makes an effective presentation. There are also links to each of the three software companies where either the entire programme can be downloaded for free (i.e. Open Office) or viewers downloaded so that the children can present their work on computers which do not have the authoring software (e.g. Textease Presenter and PowerPoint viewers)