Year 1
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New Digital Skills for Year 1
New Digital Skills for Year 1
Text Skills
Text Skills
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
- Identify & use the shift keys to make capital letters
- Type words & sentences
- Open a word processing application
- Change text size
- Understand the insertion point & the use of a cursor
- Delete text, forward, backspace & highlight/delete
- Understand the purpose of the arrow keys
- Insert & position graphics into a word processing document
- Move, resize & reshape objects in relation to text
- Save & retrieve files
- Highlight text & change font, size & style
- Cut, copy & paste text
Image Skills
Image Skills
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
- Use a text box tool
- Cut, copy & paste objects
Video & Audio
Video & Audio
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
- Know the functions/controls of a recording device
- Switch between camera & video on a recording device
- Record video with attention to the control of camera movement
- Start & stop, & pause & play back a recording
- Delete unwanted video recording & images
Communications
Communications
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
- Use video conferencing to communicate with others regionally & globally
- Compose, address & send email messages
- Reply to/forward/delete email messages
Skills and Qualities
Skills and Qualities
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.
- Describe uses (& abuses) of computer technology in society
- Practise safe searching & communications techniques (e-safety)
Tech Awareness
Tech Awareness
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
- Understand how devices can be switched on & off
- Click a mouse/trackpad to select & deselect an icon
- Click & drag an object using a mouse/trackpad (drag & drop)
- Identify the main parts of a computer/device
- Use the undo key to aid correction, exploration & experimentation
- Save/retrieve work
- Use a mouse/trackpad (single/double left click & right/left clicks)
- Open & close an application by double clicking with the mouse/trackpad
- Understand that work can be saved as a file, with a name
Coding
Coding
Key Stage 1 Computing Curriculum
Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions
Create and debug simple programs
Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs
- Understand how far to move
- Identify a solution to a maze
- Experience automation
- Understand a procedure
- Understand drag and drop (blockly) coding
- Understand that an Algorithm is a set of instructions to solve a problem
- Understand how to debug an Algorithm
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