Microsoft Word (Word Processing)

• Enter text.
• Understand and use capital and lower case.
• Basic typing skills (including use of space bar, return key and basic punctuation).
• Save and retrieve a document.
• With support, format text.
• With support, insert clip art and images.

• Continue to develop typing skills (including typing speed, wider range of appropriate punctuation (e.g. speech marks, commas etc).
• Insert tables, images and word art.
• Format text including font and paragraph justification.

• Continue to develop typing skills (including typing speed, wider range of appropriate punctuation (e.g. speech marks, commas etc).
• Cut, copy and paste.
• Format a specific area of text (highlight, move & edit according to task).
• Alter page orientation.
• Use a word template.

• Continue to develop typing skills (including typing speed, wider range of appropriate punctuation (e.g. speech marks, commas etc).
• Spell check & thesaurus.
• Format pictures within a document (text wrapping, crop, resize).

• Add text to a single slide.
• Add an image (including insert clip art/copy paste an image).
• Save and retrieve a document.

• Create multiple slides as part of a slideshow.
• Add animation to slides.
• Understand and use transitions.

• Add music to slides.
• Insert hyperlinks.
• Understand & use slideshow tab including timings.
• Make a quiz using transitions.

• Use appropriately for presenting:

1. Aide memoire, not a script.
2. Choice of transitions, animation and music should enhance presentation not detract from speaker.

• Investigate alternative software for presenting.

• Enter simply data.
• Produce a chart.
• Save and retrieve a document.

• Understand cells, rows and columns.
• Enter a range of data.
• Produce a range of graphs and chart appropriate to the data/task.
• With support use cell formatting (including font,
• border & fill).

• Use simple formula (including SUM and Average).
• Understand and use conditional formatting.
• Sort and filter data for a given purpose.
• Use cell formatting (including number, alignment, font, border and fill).

• Sort and filter data for a given purpose.
• Continue to use cell formatting (including number, alignment, font, border and fill).

Microsoft Outlook OWA (Emailing)

• Contribute ideas to class and group emails.
• With support send an email to a known member of school community.
• Open and reply to an email from a known person.

• Log on to an email account.
• Open emails, create and send appropriate replies.
• Forward an e-mail.
• Save an e-mail in draft format and then return and edit prior to sending.

• Add e-mail addresses to a class address book.
• Create group or distribution lists of contacts from an address book.
• Learn how to use the cc and bcc facilities when sending an e-mail and discuss when these should be used.

• Send ‘group’ e-mails and be aware of the benefits and risks in ‘replying to all’.
• Open and save attachments to an appropriate place.
• Select an email recipient from a class address book.