I recently completed my first BSE, and am going to talk about my experience of ICT in my placement school.

There was a specialist ICT teacher who taught ICT across the whole school. Unfortunately I did not see many ICT lessons as they always took place during my PPA time, but children did have a weekly ICT slot. There was an ICT suite that the children went to for their ICT lessons.

Each classroom in the school was equipped with an Interactive Whiteboard, so I was able to utilize this in my lessons. I was able to create slides for my lessons on Smart Notebook, which I found a highly effective way of making lessons a little more visually interesting and more engaging for the children. There was a high amount of EAL children in this school, so I attempted to make my slides as visual as possible to make the learning more accessible for them. I received good feedback for this.