Archive for the 'ELP - ICT' Category

The Number 124 Bus

The pupils have been rehearsing their performance of a short and sweet play about East Lothian called “The 124 Bus”.
The children devised the script, setting and roles themselves - creating a 3 minute invitation to enjoy the sites of East Lothian with them.
In ICT lessons they searched for images of East Lothian to be used [...]

A letter TO America…

 Today in ICT we used our ever improving computer skills to write a letter to our friends in America. Not only did this allow us to practise using Microsoft Word software but it encouraged us to make use of the simple sentences we have been practising in English with Ms Monaco.
In English we have been [...]

Using Powerpoint to send information to America…

This week we are learning how to use a special computer package called Powerpoint. The reason we want to find out what this special programme can do, is that we would like to tell our American friends in Akron, Ohio all about our lives in East Lothian.
At first we thought that we could maybe send [...]

Using email…

Using email
Email is such an important part of school life for most children. Whether they are simply sending a friendly mail to their best pal or using it to access a log-in to an educational website, the school email system underpins so much of school life for the pupils of Preston Lodge.
The pupils on the [...]

Using numbers and letters on the computer keyboard…

Where are our numbers and letters?
It was important for us to spend some time, very early in the Enhanced Learning Provision ICT program, familiarising the pupils with the basic layout of the computer keyboard.
Being able to log in independently would be a massive step in the pupils’ personal progress on a number of levels. However, [...]

Using capital letters on a computer keyboard

Introductory Powerpoint
Worksheet resource
An integral part of our ICT program for the Enhanced Learning Provision is giving the pupils skills that transcend perceived subject barriers. It is all teachers’ jobs to promote literacy and numeracy skills, for example. (That applies in the mainstream of course too!)
Our ICT program provides us with a lot of scope to [...]

ELP ICT!

Under our Enhanced Learning Provision, ICT is taught as a discreet group option. A small number of S1 and S2 pupils involved in our ELP program undertake their ICT lessons in the care of SfL teachers, Jillian Binnie and John Samuel with input from the school Computing department.
Lessons are taught in the Computing department suites [...]





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