OPS+Ways+ICT+has+Raised+Student+Achievement

=﻿ In what ways do you feel ICT has improved student learning this year in your team? = YEAR 0


 * Some children have had little experience with computers before coming to school. Activities at school have given them skills and confidence using a computer.
 * Reinforcement of learning which has taken place in the classroom e.g learning alphabet letters and sounds.
 * The children have been introduced to the use of digital cameras
 * The children have been introduced to the making of digital storybooks.
 * Two children have worked together at a time on the two classroom computers and have supported and helped each other with their learning.
 * The children have been introduced to word processing and keyboard skills.

YEAR 1 We have had a discussion about ICT in the juniors and the impact on our classes. Many assume there are computers in all homes but there is not. There is an amazing range from 0-10 in knowledge and ability

Last year having no ICT specialist and trying to get the whole class logged on and following simple steps was really difficult for many of us. Some children had zero reading skills and zero computer knowledge. Looking at a keyboard display was daunting for them. Challenges found last year have made us think more about our organisation and priorities Sitting down and planning/prioritising what we thought were important, specifically to our own classes needs, the reflective journals helped get us started. Trialling new teaching styles eg using ACTivboard to show groups or class how to do a specific skill eg log on has been very successful The Digital storybooks are a great resource and an easy to use re-useable resource. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The children have learnt a lot from making them and it has been a great support for our reading programme. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We hope to branch out next year and make Digital stories for specific learning intentions eg maths etc., <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sharing all these on the intranet is great. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I personally feel our whole team have embraced the ICT contract and all it has to offer. It is evident throughout our classrooms. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jackie Nichol Team Leader Year 1

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">YEAR 4 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year the students in Team 4 have made great progress in learning new ICT skills and applying them to their learning. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a result of an excellent programme of Professional Development for staff, the students have reaped the benefits. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are more confident at using the internet and photos to support their digital stories. They are regularly researching information from the internet via the data projector and are producing very effective presentation formats. ICT is being used widely throughout the four classes in Team 4. As well as for Inquiry Learning, it has supported learning in mathematics, reading and English on a daily basis. The students are more confident and capable of working independently on the computer and they are more motivated to learn for themselves.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">YEAR 5/6 TEAM 5 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Team 5 student learning has shown improvement alongside the growth of Teacher confidence in the teaching of ICT. Being part of the ICT contract has encouraged us as Teachers to up skill and be more proficient in newer ICT trends. In addition the PD sessions held throughout the year have encouraged skill progression of the individual teachers within our Team, improving overall confidence levels when passing on these new skills to their pupils. Areas of enrichment for pupils in Team 5 have been in the use of our classroom data projector, manipulating images in Photoshop, Comic Life, Photo Story, creating Digital Story books and recording sounds and sound effects in Audacity. Pupils’ skill levels have shown definite improvement and all pupils within our Team have benefitted from ICT programmes we have used.

YEAR 5/6 TEAM 6 Students learning has been improved in the following ways:
 * Research skills have been finetuned (using the internet)
 * Presentation skills have improved
 * More motivated
 * Typing speed has increased
 * Learning a variety of programmes and using interchangeable skills
 * Raises attainment

=DIGITAL STORYBOOK FEEDBACK= =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Room 32's (Year 3) = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whilst teaching the class of Y3’s to produce a digital story book, the use of audacity to record sounds was new to them. One student in particular took on the challenge and learnt how to record, trim the recording to enhance the quality and name and save the file so that others could access it. She would advise the ‘speaker’ on how to produce the best result, consulting with them whether, when she played it back, it was of a good enough quality. The confidence she gained in learning this new skill and passing that skill onto other students raised her self esteem and confidence which has overflowed into other areas of the curriculum and activities where her confidence is not as high.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Claire Hargraves (Teacher)



=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How Digital stories have enhanced children’s learning in Room 6 = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have made about 6 digital storybooks with our class this year. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are an excellent way to engage children in reading. We have made our own versions of Jolly Jumping Jellybeans and The Taniwha. Taking repetitive and rich language and using it to create interactive stories that the children can read confidently as a class or on their own. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have an ACTIVboard so it could be used with the whole class. The students have learnt a wide variety of skills making their stories, including adding sounds/voice over’s/music, creating models, art and sets for their stories. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have used this process to create our own story Bears in Space. The children learnt about creating their own characters and making up stories, writing their own text. This was an extension activity with my top reading group. We have used digital storybooks to recount events at school. The children have taken photos of the new Admin block being built. They watched the diggers coming in to dig out the new landscape gardens. We took photos of our ART for the art show. The photos are then used to make digital story books incorporating recounts of the events as they happened. I also printed these off and made them into books for the library. Part of their reading activities is to use the ACTIVboard and to read/play the Digital storybooks. A great reading and creative writing resource, which I will add to!.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jackie Nichol (Teacher)

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Storybook Reflection: = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The digital storybook process has been excellent to extend all of the children’s thinking and ICT skills. In my class a boy who has only been in New Zealand for 1 year and has very limited English was able to demonstrate his skills on the computer. He wrote a very simple story and illustrated it using more complex actions in the computer program. It was wonderful to see him excelling in learning rather than struggling. He was very proud of his finished product and shared it willingly with others.