Communicating and collaborating online- Whole School Overview.

Year Learning Objectives Key Skills Notes

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1  To start to understand that  Contribute ideas to a class email and Woodlands-primary mail
messages can be sent together respond to messages- this can be to disabled.
electronically over distances. real life of ‘fictitious’ characters.

2  To start to understand that
messages can be sent
electronically over distances.
 To understand that email can be
used to send messages
electronically and people can
reply to emails
 Look at the different ways that messages can Woodlands-primary mail
be sent, letters, telephone, email, text, disabled for individual children.
instant messaging etc
 Continue to contribute ideas to a class or
group email and together respond to
messages- this can be to real life of ‘fictitious’
characters.

3  To understand that Cloud based  Begin to use on-line tools, such as Google Woodlands-primary mail
tools can allow multiple people to docs and sites to collaborate together- for disabled for individual children.
contribute to shared documents example by working together to add ideas to
and Google Sites a word bank, write a shared story

4  To understand a small range of
web 2.0 tools that can help them
work together and collaborate;
forums, shared documents etc
 To use the web 2.0 tools to work
collaboratively on a project (e.g.
sharing comparative data,
creating a story)
 Understand how e-mails work, and send e-mails 1 hour input.
between people within the woodlands-primary Woodlands-primary mail
domain, including using the ‘cc’ and ‘bcc’ fields. restricted to internal e-mails
 Use e-mail to e-mail work completed in school to only.
their teachers and peers.
 Collaborate with peers on a project to produce a
finished piece to support topic work- using
google documents within the woodlands-primary

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  To understand how e-mails work
and be able to send an e-mail,
including choosing a suitable
subject and entering addresses
in the ‘to’, ‘cc’ and ‘bcc’ fields.
 To share and exchange their
ideas using e-mail and electronic
communication- inside the
school environment.
5  To share and exchange their ideas
using e-mail and electronic
communication- inside the school
environment.
 To use collaboration tools to work
together to produce a joint piece of
work
6  To use appropriate forms of
communication to, share
information or ideas
 To use collaboration tools to work
together to produce a joint piece of
work with children both inside
Woodlands Primary and in other
schools.
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domain.
 Contribute/edit/refine contributions to a shared
document and understand that all changes are
visible
 Continue to use e-mail to e-mail within All delivered as part as general
woodlands-primary and to e-mail work completed curriculum.
in and out of school to their teachers and peers.
 Collaborate on a project using a range of web 2.0
tools to support their work- including, but not
limited to , goggle documents and sites (within
the woodlands-primary domain)
 Begin to collaborate with other children outside of
Woodlands-primary (e-safety paramount)
 Upload files to an online area e.g. video, photo
story, sounds, images
 Continue to collaborate on a project using a Collaboration and e-mails with
range of web 2.0 tools to support their work- others schools as part of
including, but not limited to , goggle documents transition to high school.
and sites- both with children in their class, other
classes and children from other schools.
Woodlands-primary e-mail
 Respond to e-mails sent from outside the
woodlands-primary domain using their account allows for monitored
woodlands-primary e-mail account. (e-sfatey and filtered e-mailing outside of
paramount) the woodlands-primary domain.
 Talk about the different forms of electronic
communication and web 2.0 tools, discuss
appropriateness of using different tools in
different contexts and the advantages and
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