Renewed Primary Frameworks

The aim of the Primary Frameworks for literacy and mathematics is to support and increase all children's access to excellent teaching, exciting and successful learning. The renewed frameworks draw on the work of national projects and networks to embed ICT teaching and learning opportunities in literacy and mathematics.

The renewed frameworks provide:

• Clearer progression in learning
• Materials to support planning
• Interactivity to support ease of planning
• Stronger links with assessment for learning
• Links between subjects

A third of the literacy unit plans have specific ICT outcomes. ICT is integrated across the phases of learning within each unit to support; reading, speaking and listening, planning and writing. All mathematics units have reference to ICT.

The Primary National Strategy is committed to:

• Development of ICT in children’s independent work.
• Improving leadership of ICT across the primary sector
• ICT to help combat underachievement
• Providing support for ICT as a subject, and assessment
• Progression in ICT capability from EYFS through to secondary, with age related expectations

Keys to Learning

‘Keys to Learning in literacy and mathematics' is a Primary Strategy DVD and booklet package that supports teachers in making links between their own use of ICT to support teaching and children's use of ICT to support their learning.

Keys to Learning covers 7 areas of Literacy and Mathematics:

• Early reading
• Calculation
• Reading on screen
• Problem solving
• Shape and space
• Writing Key Stage 1
• Writing Key Stage 2

It offers a wide variety of resources, including:

• Staff development meeting outlines
• Interactive texts, IWB files, Excel workbooks, interactive teaching programs and support materials for reading and writing
• Video clips of classroom practice
• Resource user guides and skills tutorials
• Searchable bank of materials

The order reference is 00225-2006PCK-EN. Order from DfES Publications: 0845 6022260

Progressions in ICT

Teachers need the ‘four confidences’ for effective teaching with ICT:

• subject knowledge
• teaching approach
• ICT Fluency
• risk taking

The Primary Strategy is developing resources to strengthen teacher understanding of the key concepts in ICT and standards. The aim is to provide a guide to developing progression within the themes of ICT. It will not be a new scheme of work. There will be short exemplars with ‘learning descriptions’ for each year, and examples to support assessment. .

The strands of ICT are:

1) Finding things out

• Handling Data
• Researching

2) Developing and making things happen

• Control/Sensing
• Modelling and simulations

3) Exchanging and sharing information

• Communication

4) Reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses

Primary Strategy ‘Progressions’ pilot materials also cover ICT in the Early Years and Foundation stage. For further details please contact Helen Smith.