Children explore ICT and learn to use it to achieve specific outcomes. They develop their ideas and record work, becoming familiar with different hardware and software.

In the Finding Things Out strand of the National Curriculum, children gather information from different sources and develop skills in entering data, saving and retrieving it. Within the Developing Ideas and Making Things Happen strand, children use ICT to give instructions and explore what happens in situations. Within the Exchanging and Sharing Information aspect of the programme of study, children use text, images, tables and sounds to present their ideas.

The resources in this section can be used to support children in developing skills when using hardware and software. There is also material available for teachers to improve their own confidence and competence when using ICT as part of their approach to teaching and learning. Schools.ik provides a means by which teachers, or a school, can build a website to support learning beyond the classroom.