ICT General Capabilities

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

End of Foundation Year End of Year 2 End of Year 4 End of Year 6

Applying Social and recognise ownership - recognise ownership of - Acknowledge digital - Identify the legal
Ethical Protocols over their own digital digital products that products have a obligations regarding
work other produce source, and are the ownership and use
- apply selected created by others of digital products
follow class rules about standard guidelines and -Identify and apply
using digital information techniques to secure - Apply guidelines and strategies and
digital information techniques to digital protection of digital
follow class rules when - follow guidelines when systems to secure information and risks
sharing personal sharing personal information -identify the risks to
information with known information identity and privacy
audiences and - identify how ICT is - Take action to avoid when using ICT
demonstrate an used at home and dangers to personal -main uses of ICT at
awareness of applying school security school, home and in the
social protocols when - Identify the value and local community
using ICT to role of ICT in the home
communicate and the classroom

identify how they use

ICT in multiple ways on
multiple devices

Investigating with ICT use ICT to identify - use ICT to identify, - Use ICT to plan an -Use a range of ICT to
where information is record and classify information search and identify and represent
located textual and graphic recognise patterns in patterns in sets of
information the information information
use icons to locate or - locate information from -locate, retrieve or
generate required a given set of digital - Locate and retrieve generate information
information sources information from a using search engines
explain how located - explain the usefulness range of digital sources and simple search
data or information was of located data or functions
used information -Explain why collected - assess the suitability of
 information was data
selected

Creating with ICT use ICT to follow or - use ICT to prepare - Use ICT to generate -use ICT effectively to
contribute to a simple simple plans to find ideas and plan record ideas, represent
plan for a solution solutions or answers to solutions thinking and plan
questions solutions
use ICT as a creative - experiment with ICT as - Create and modify - create and modify
tool to generate simple a creative tool to data/information for digital solutions, creative
solutions, modifications generate solutions particular purposes outputs or data
or data representations representation
for personal or school
purposes

Communicating with ICT use purposefully - use purposefully - Use ICT appropriately -select and use
selected ICT tools safely selected ICT tools safely to share information appropriate ICT tools
to view information to share and exchange safely to share
shared by trusted adults information with - Understand computer -understand that
appropriate audiences communications are particular forms of
understand that - understand that directed to an audience computer mediated
messages are recorded, computer mediated for a purpose communications
viewed or sent in communications may be
computer mediated received later
communications for
others to receive

Managing and identify and safely - identify the main - Identify and operate a select from, and safely
Operating with ICT operate ICT systems to components of common range of operate, a range of
complete relevant consumer ICT systems devices/software/dema devices to undertake
simple specified tasks - identify and safely use nds and seek solutions specific tasks and use
and seek help when a selected range of basic troubleshooting
encountering a problem devices - Identify and compare procedures to solve
- manage and maintain main components of routine malfunctions
identify common digital data with different systems -identify, compare and
consumer ICT systems guidance classify basic ICT
with input and output - Manage and maintain system components
functions digital data -manage and maintain
data on different storage
save and retrieve digital mediums – locally and
data with support on networks
Digital Technologies (PP-3)
Knowledge & Understanding
Process & Production Skills
Year 1
Recognise and explore digital
systems (hardware and
software components) for a
purpose
Collect, explore and sort data,
and use digital systems to
present the data creatively
Follow, describe and represent a
sequence of steps and
decisions (algorithms) needed
to solve simple problems
Explore how people safely use
common information systems
Year 2
-Collecting, managing and
analysing data,
the nature and properties of
data, how they are collected
and interpreted
-Digital implementation
the process of implementing
digital solutions
-Creating solutions by:
investigating and defining
-Designing producing and
implementing
-Evaluating collaborating and
managing
- Present data using a
variety of digital tools
- Use data to solve
similar tasks/problems
- Share and publish
information in a safe
online environment,
with known people
Use ICT to identify, record and
Year 3
- There are different
purposes for using
digital systems and
peripheral devices.
- - Different types of data
can be represented in
different ways.
Collecting, managing and
analysing data
Collect and present different
types of data using simple
software to create useful
information (ACTDIP009)
L, N, ICT, CCT
Digital implementation
Use visually
to meet information,
communication and recreation
needs
Create and organise ideas and
information using information
systems independently and with
others, and share these with
known people in safe online
environments
classify textual and graphic
information to show what is
known and what needs to be
investigated
represented sequenced
steps (algorithms),
including steps with
decisions made by the
user (branching)
(ACTDIP011) N, ICT,
CCT
Create and
communicate ideas
and information safely
(ACTDIP013)
L, N, ICT, CCT, PSC,
EU
Creating solutions by Investigating and defining: Creating solutions by: Creating solutions by:
- Explore opportunities ● investigating and defining
for design ○ Explore design to Investigating and defining
meet needs or
Designing: opportunities - Create a sequence of steps
- Develop and ● designing to solve a given task
communicate design ○ Develop,
ideas through communicate and Designing
discuss design
describing, drawing, ideas through
- Develop and communicate
modelling and/or a describing, ideas using labelled
sequence of written or drawing, modelling drawings and appropriate
spoken steps and/or a sequence technical terms
Producing and implementing: of steps
● producing and implementing
- Use given components ○ Use components Producing and implementing
and equipment to and given - Select, and safely use,
safely equipment to safely appropriate components
make solutions make solutions with given equipment to make
● evaluating
Evaluating: ○ Use simple criteria
a solution
- Use personal to evaluate the
preferences success of design Evaluating
to evaluate the success processes and - Use criteria to evaluate
of solutions design processes and
● collaborating and managing
design processes ○ Work solutions developed
Collaborating and managing: independently, or
- Work independently, or collaboratively Collaborating and managing
with others when when required, to - Work independently, or
organise
required, to create and information and
collaboratively when
safely share ideas to create and required, to plan, create and
sequenced steps for safely share communicate
solutions sequenced steps sequenced steps
for solutions
Digital Technologies (Year 4-6)
Knowledge & Understanding
Process & Production Skills
Year 4
In Year 4, students further
develop understanding and
skills in computational thinking,
such as categorising and
outlining procedures.
Students explore digital
systems in terms of their
components, and peripheral
devices, such as digital
microscopes, cameras and
interactive whiteboards.
The observations of student
understandings and process
and production skills through
the use of anecdotal notes,
checklists, photographs,
videos or recordings.
Recording of student
achievement in physical and
verbal activities such as role-
plays, performances,
speeches, play-based
learning, debates or online
discussions.
Year 5
Develop computational
thinking
Digital systems connect with
basic functions to transmit data connected together to
Data can be represented
through codes
Collect, store and present
different types of data
Using and implementing
simple programming
environments including
branching
Year 6
Digital systems have
components with basic
functions and
interactions that may be
form networks which
transmit different types
of data
Representation of data
Whole numbers are used to
represent data in a digital
system
Refine skills to identify and use
appropriate data and
requirements.
Students consolidate their
understanding of the role
individual components of
digital systems play in the
processing and representation
of data. They acquire, validate,
interpret, track and manage
various types of
data, and begin to explain the
concept of data states in digital
systems and how data are
transferred between
Systems.
Creating solutions by
Investigating and defining:
Define a sequence of steps to design
a solution for a given task
Identify and choose the appropriate
resources from a given set
Designing:
Develop and communicate design
ideas and decisions using annotated
drawings and appropriate technical
terms
Producing and implementing:
Select, and safely use, appropriate
components and equipment to make
solutions
Evaluating:
Identifying and define a Use software to collect, sort,
problem and create a solution interpret, visually present and
for given issue manipulate data for a range of
purposes
Identify available resources
Manage, create and
Develop and communicate a communicate information for
range of solutions online collaborative projects,
using agreed social, ethical
Follow design ideas with the and technical protocol
use of diagrams, storyboards.
Selecting and applying safe
Apply safe procedures to make procedures
solutions.
Working independently or
Work collaboratively or collaboratively to develop and
individually to plan, develop communicate ideas and
and communicate ideas and information for solutions
information for solutions

Use criteria to evaluate and justify

simple design processes and
solutions

Collaborating and managing:

Work independently, or
collaboratively when required, to plan,
create and communicate ideas and
information for solutions