Going beyond NIC ICT requirements 3.1

Learners, in addition to meeting the Northern Ireland Curriculum requirements for ICT, should:

• have a wide variety of safe opportunities across the curriculum to access and use digital resources
• experience safe ICT-enabled research/project-based learning and teaching activities
• benefit from enhanced links between formal and non-formal education
• engage in creative uses of multimedia technology and have opportunities work with IT professionals

ICT in early learning 3.2

Through the foundation stage and early years children should choose and use software titles and programmable devices as part of structured play and early learning activities

Online in KS1 5.1

By the end of KS1, children should experience using online, video conferencing and email services in a protected and controlled environment (on their own school network) 

Online in KS2 5.2

By the end of KS2 children should have the experience of working online with other children in their own location, and at a distance, on a common educational project

Internet ‘grammar’ in KS2 6.1

Children should develop their basic information literacy and internet “grammar” skills, throughout the primary phase, and those skills should be consolidated by the end of KS2 

Consolidation beyond KS2 3.4

Through KS3 and beyond, pupils should be consolidating and extending the foundation of digital and visual literacies they have developed by the end of KS2

Online in KS3 6.2

During the post-primary phase, and especially in KS3, pupils should engage as online members of an international learning community, working online in assessed, authentic collaborative tasks – in more than one language – with young people and teachers and experts whom they have never met

Online in KS4 5.3

By the end of KS4, pupils should complete at least one course containing online tests and an accredited online component