Matt: From today's lesson I'm hoping to achieve outcomes of collaboration with the children, that they'll help each other to, to get the task done, er, also I'll expect them to increase their ICT skills, to be able to take the kings and queens of Scotland and put them into records on a database and eventually to sort them into some kind of order.
The children will have to input the dates that the, the king or the queen's reign began, er, the date that the king or queen's reign ended and the computer will automatically calculate it, it will I think show them er, in a way that, um, computers are very useful for that kind of function.
The exercises we do use in ICT I believe are helping them improve their own skills in language particularly, um, they start to realise that close enough isn't good enough, it has to be exact and it gives them more care in spelling, more care in punctuation et cetera, and that, um, they, they already come to school with some computer skills already, um, some children quite considerable computer skills, but the kinds of learning in school tend to different from the ones they're learning at home, games for example.