Arnold House School

The Arnold House ICT department offers access to ICT to all pupils and staff within the School. The School has a dedicated ICT room with facilities that allow each pupil in a class to use a PC on their own. The music department has a suite of 9 Macs where a class can be catered for on one Mac between two pupils. The School has interactive whiteboards in all of the teaching rooms including 4 new touch LCDs.

Boys in Years 1 through to 8 have dedicated ICT lessons with the Head of Department which teaches them key skills in the use of different software for presenting work, the internet, email and touch typing.

Boys in Years 1 to 6 have an extra weekly lesson in the ICT suite to support their learning in Maths. Year 7 and 8 boys also have the use of personal netbooks which can be used across any subject when required.

Information & Communication Technology is important because:

• The use of ICT is widespread in the modern technological world and continually growing
• ICT is an important medium for learning and study at all educational levels

The broad aims of the department are that all pupil's will:

• enjoy using ICT and tackle all applications with confidence and a sense of achievement
• develop practical skills in the use of ICT and the ability to apply these skills when producing work
• understand the capabilities and limitations of ICT
• understand how to use the internet and email accounts appropriately and safely

The emphasis in our teaching with ICT is on the use of computers as tools to support learning:

• all pupils are quickly made familiar with confident use of the keyboard and mouse
• pupils are taught how to efficiently use the internet as a research tool
• as pupils progress through the School they are encouraged to develop growing independence in their use of ICT