Contact the CCEA Administration team on 028 90 261 405 and inform them of the change. They will amend your school’s records. This will ensure you are only billed for the correct number of pupils.

Contact the CCEA Administration team on 028 90 261 405 and inform them of this. They will remove your school details from the system. This will inform the moderators not to expect your School Portfolio to be submitted.

Contact the CCEA Administration team on 028 90 261 405 and inform them of this. They will provide you with another copy.

Contact the CCEA Administration team on 028 90 261 405 and inform them of this. They will amend your school records and ensure that the appropriate pupils receive certificates and that your school is only billed for the correct number of pupils.

Contact the CCEA Administration team on 028 90 261 405 and inform them of this. They will send your ICT Assessment record form back to you for you to amend and they will then amend your school records so that pupils will receive the appropriate certificate.

The scheme is open to all pupils in Primary Schools as well as those pupils of primary school age in Special Schools. Schools can decide whether to register for both KS1 and 2, or one Key Stage only. Teachers of all year groups can use the tasks with their pupils, however only pupils at the end of each Key Stage (Y4 & Y7) will be accredited.

It costs £40 to register your school. Then, later in the year, your school will be invoiced a further £2 per pupil who will be receiving a certificate.

Classroom teachers assess their own pupils.

You need to register for the scheme that matches the chronological age of your pupils. In other words, if your pupils are 11 years old or younger on 30th June on that given year, they must take part in the Primary ICT Accreditation Scheme. If your pupils are older than 11 years on the 30th June in that given year, then they must take part in the Post-Primary ICT Accreditation Scheme. ‘Primary’ certificates will be issued to pupils in the primary scheme, and ‘Post-Primary’ certificates will be issued to pupils in the Post-Primary scheme.

Your Education & Library Board may offer course for teachers to enrol on. You should check with the CASS service for information.

You can also contact one of the Creative Learning Centres who offer many courses for teachers as well as projects with pupils:

AmmA Centre, Armagh

The Nerve Centre, Derry

Studio ON, Belfast

The Requirements for Using ICT are set out under headings described as the 5 ‘E’s. These are:

• Explore (1 & 2)
• Express
• Exchange
• Evaluate
• Exhibit

They can be described as follows:

Explore 1 is about looking for, finding, choosing and using information and Explore 2 is about using digital tools to investigate and solve problems. Pupils move from having resources provided for them to being more independent and discriminate users of ICT. This ‘E’ often forms the first part of work in which a pupil engages in.

Express is about pupils being creative, developing and presenting their ideas using text, sound, music and still or moving images. It ranges from simple text, sound or pictures to the production of a multimedia product.

Exchange is about pupils collaborating with others online to share and develop their ideas. This can include sending an e-mail, participating in a video-conference, contributing to an online course or using collaborative online tools.

Evaluate is about pupils reflecting on their process and outcome, thinking about how they carried out the task and how they might improve upon what they did.

Exhibit is about pupils managing and showcasing their work digitally. It ranges from pupils printing and saving their work to organising and maintaining digital personalised areas.

In consultation with teachers it was felt not appropriate to assess these ‘E’s at these levels. However, it is a statutory requirement of the NI Curriculum to provide pupils with opportunities to develop UICT skills in all 5 ‘E’s.

There are 7 levels in total, but Levels 6 and 7 are only appropriate for post-primary. Level 5 requires a very high degree of sophistication which is out of the reach of most primary school pupils. The expected level at the end of KS2 is Level 4.

The 5 ‘E’s form the statutory Curriculum requirements for UICT. Therefore all pupils in the primary School should be provided with opportunities to develop Using ICT skills in these areas.

However, for the purposes of Assessment (for the ICT Accreditation Scheme), the following is required as evidence:

ICT is now assessed as one holistic level. The previous strands no longer exist. The 5 ‘E’s do not replace the old strands. As part of the ‘Revised Curriculum’ there are ‘new’ UICT Requirements and the levels have all been rewritten in accordance with this.

‘Desirable Feature’ is the term given to the things that it is desirable for a pupil to demonstrate competence in, for the various type of ICT activity. In the Primary ICT Accreditation Scheme, this range of ICT activities has been grouped into the following areas:

• Animation
• Desk Top Publishing
• Exploring Programming
• Moving Image
• Music Technology
• Online Collaboration
• Presentation
• Researching
• Spreadsheets
• Web Design
• Working with Images
• Working with Sound
• Working with Text

The Desirable Features are non-statutory guidance which should give teachers an idea of the types of things to look for when assessing a pupil I an area of ICT.

At Levels 1 and 2, a Pupil portfolio should show evidence of at least four different Desirable Features at a given level.

At Levels 3 -5, a Pupil Portfolio should show evidence of covering at least five different Desirable Features at a given level.

You must cover at least one Desirable Feature from List B. This is true for both KS1 and KS2 Pupil portfolios.

There is no requirement to carry out a specific number of tasks with your pupils, as long as you are meeting the required coverage of the 5 ‘E’s and Desirable Features. The following documents may help you with your selection of tasks:

Tasks-at-a-Glance

Get the Most out of a Task

Possible Combinations of Tasks

Generally pupils must produce individual work however in some tasks it is more appropriate that they work with a partner or in a group. This is stated in the task description.

There are approximately 60 tasks available that range across the levels. While some of these tasks have a curricular context built in, such as ‘Victorians’ or ‘Titanic’, the majority of the tasks are generic. This means that they can be adapted to any topic that you are doing in school.

However, you can write your own task if you wish, using the Task Template: This task must be submitted to CCEA for approval before it can be used as part of the moderation process for the Scheme. You should forward your task to one of the following email addresses for Task Approval:
morourke@ccea.org.uk
cmahon@ccea.org.uk

No, tasks from the previous IT Accreditation Scheme cannot be used as part of the new ICT Accreditation Scheme. The old tasks do not take account of the new Requirements for UICT. Some of the old favourite tasks have been rewritten to take these into account and are available in the new Scheme. Click on the link below to be re-directed to the Online Task Library.

You need to ensure that you plan for coverage of the UICT Requirements across the five ‘E’s. Explore and Express form the core of most ICT activities completed by your pupils. However, in your planning, you need to build in opportunities to Exchange, Evaluate and Exhibit.

E-safety is not presented as a separate assessment criterion in the Levels of Progression Grid for UICT. Rather it is intended that it should be integrated across the curriculum at a level appropriate to the pupil. Consequently the Levels of Progression include the following explicit statement: “Pupils should demonstrate, when and where appropriate, knowledge and understanding of e-safety including acceptable online behaviour.”

An e-portfolio is a compilation of pupil work made up of different electronic formats such as text, image, spreadsheet, sound, moving images etc.

You must include a completed School Portfolio Summary Record Form. On this form you must tell us your details and the details of the content of the School Portfolio. Without this form, the moderator will not be able to identify the work easily.

Each Pupil Portfolio should contain a completed Pupil Portfolio Record Form. This is the ONLY form that needs to be included in the Pupil Portfolio.

This form lets the moderator know about the pupil and about the tasks completed by that pupil which are included in the portfolio. Essentially, this form should be used by the teacher to inform the moderator of the learning process that the pupil went through, including evidence of where the pupil Exchanged, Evaluated and Exhibited their work especially where this is not evident in the final piece of work. These teacher comments are of vital importance to the moderator. Without them, the moderator cannot get a full picture of the process carried out by the pupil.

Information will be provided to schools in due course.

Information will be provided to schools in due course.

If you have omitted to include something in a Pupil Portfolio, you will be contacted by a moderator. You will have an opportunity to send in the required piece of work.

If a Pupil Portfolio is found not to be at the required level, the moderator will approve it at the level which the evidence demonstrates. You will be informed of this. There will be no re-submission for re-moderation this year.

For more information, click here to go to the ‘Moderation’ section.