ICT medium term plan year 4

WORD PROCESSING
Success criteria
Organisation
Learning intention
Context
Remember to....
(activity, resources,
WALT
differentiation in brief)
RESOURCES NEEDED: Laptops, MS Word, Stay Safe at the Playground.doc Why exercise is cool.doc Roberts Tights.doc
Objective
Alter font size and
that electronic
use font sizes and
Ask the class to suggest a list of five ways to improve playtime
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use effects to
documents
effects appropriately
and enter their suggestions on screen. Demonstrate how to
indicate relative
use a variety
use alignment to
change font size and use bold to make some ideas seem more
importance
of presentation
position text on
important than others. Biggest font = most important. Bold /
techniques
page
Italic makes key words and ideas stand out. Centre the heading
and written
use undo button to
and make it stand out by changing font, size and underlining
effects to
undo last action
In pairs or individually: Chn select one of the two texts to format
communicate
as demonstrated. Ask them to print and save their work in My
messages
Documents.
Note: if working in pairs chn will need to select different docs,
one for each to work through
Support: TA to support

RESOURCES NEEDED: Laptops, MS Word, Tudor Monarch docs

Extend: Give a piece of

narrative text (Roberts Tights)
and get them to format title and
work out key words to apply effect
to eg bold where person is
shouting, italics to stress key
word

Plenary

Show examples of
texts where font sizes
and effects make
different elements
stand out. Why have
those things been
made to stand out?

Notes for future

planning

WORD PROCESSING
Learning intention
WALT
Objective
2

Use cut and paste

to reorder a piece
of text

Context
that ICT can
be used to
reorganise text
to make its
meaning
clearer

Success criteria
Remember to....

Organisation
(activity, resources,
differentiation in brief)

Plenary

use cut and paste to

reorder text
produce a coherent
sequence of events

Show a sequence of historical events that are in random order,

eg facts about Drakes voyage. Explain to the class that
information is not always presented in the most useful way.
Demonstrate the use of cut and paste to move text around the
screen.
Divide the class into pairs and ask the children to think about the
order of the paragraphs displayed on screen so that they
produce a clearer sequence of events.
Chn to work on Tudor Monarch documents and move position of
sentences.

Think of other things

you can order and
prioritise things you
do to get ready for
school, put what you
eat into healthy order
etc

Support: Give a numbered list,

so that they know the required
end sequence

RESOURCES NEEDED: Laptops, MS Word, How Muscles Work.doc

Objective
Use spellcheck
that ICT can
use spellcheck but
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be used to
recognise that
correct
spellcheck is an aid,
mistakes
rather than a
substitute for being
able to spell

Extend: Give clues about

sequence of events. Chn can
then decide on the order of
events.

Show an extract from an information book, eg How Muscles

Work, but include a number of spelling mistakes. Discuss why
correct spelling is important and explain that before a book is
printed editors and proof-readers correct spelling mistakes.
Show the class how to use spellcheck and explain that it
sometimes makes a number of suggestions for one word,
eg wat, on the first line could be lots of things. Explain that the
first suggestion is not always the right one and that spellcheck
does not recognise mistakes where a real word is used, eg it
will not recognise word at the end of the sentence where it
should be work.
In pairs or individually, get the chn to use spellcheck to correct
the extract of text.

Have you found all the

errors? Which
mistakes were less
obvious eg typing
then instead of the
or there when it should
be their.

Notes for future

planning

WORD PROCESSING
Learning intention
WALT

Context

Success criteria
Remember to....

Organisation
(activity, resources,
differentiation in brief)
Support: Make sure the
language and spelling used is
accessible by selecting simple
text

Plenary

Notes for future

planning

Organisation
(activity, resources,
differentiation in brief)

Plenary

Notes for future

planning

Discuss e-safety and keeping safe when using online

communications at home and at school
Understand that a password can keep information private and
secure
Understand how First Class allows access to certain rights and
areas when a log in is applied
Understand and abide by acceptable use policy

Go through the Brain

Teaser Quiz as a class
to check everyone
knows the key points

Extend: Identify the homophones

included in the text. List them
and alternative spellings at the
end of the document.

EMAIL and Internet Safety

Success criteria
Learning intention
Context
Remember to....
WALT
RESOURCES NEEDED: Laptops, First Class, Think U Know website
Objective
To understand the
First Class
Know that
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schools e-safety
passwords are used
policy as
to log in to access
appropriate to their
some web content
age
and why these
should be kept
private

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/
Talk through How to Have Fun section and look at all areas that
chn are using (listed at top of page). Go through How to Stay in
Control section for same topics. Look at How To Report and then
let children use the Cyber Caf to improve their knowledge.
RESOURCES NEEDED: Laptops, First Class, documents to add as attachments

EMAIL and Internet Safety

Learning intention
WALT
Objective
Send and receive
2
emails with
attachments

Context
First Class

Success criteria
Remember to....

Organisation
(activity, resources,
differentiation in brief)

Plenary

Choose who to
send your email to
Attach a document

Demonstrate how to create an email and enter the recipient,

either by selecting from the list of users or by entering an email
address
Demonstrate how to add an attachment
Demonstrate how to open an email and read attachment
In pairs or individually: send and receive emails, within the room
and adding attachment
Note:.Email content must comply with school policy no
inappropriate language, images etc to be included

Demonstrate the VLE

and talk about posting
work

Notes for future

planning