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At the recent Primary Strategy ICT subject leaders meeting, we were reminded that the Primary Strategy still very much sees ICT as a separate subject as well as a tool to be used to support learning across the curriculum. The ‘ICT progression’ documents are currently in progress and will provide a framework for teaching and assessing ICT capability from the foundation stage to Year 7 and beyond. It is hoped that it will be published in Autumn 2006. A draft version should be available for comment in the summer term.

Draft versions of the revised literacy and mathematics frameworks, which includes a lot more ICT than previous versions, is already available for comment. Click here to access them.
A DVD resource entitled ‘Keys to Learning’ will soon be available. It focuses on using ICT to support early reading, reading comprehension and writing in Key Stages 1 and 2. In addition, the ‘Multimodal toolkit’, a range of multimodal texts to be used as a teaching tool, will also be available soon.
The NAACEmark will soon become the ICT mark, and rather than giving the award for being a ‘good’ ICT school, it will now offer opportunities for all schools to move up the scale from 1 to 5. Every school can use the Self-Review framework to find out where they stand, and use the ICT Mark as optional accreditation for schools who move into the ‘good’ category across the nine elements.