Redhill Primary School: a class act

• She explained: ‘In an art class, if you asked a child what they’d done, they would say what they had drawn and what it showed. They wouldn’t say they had used a crayon. But when children use computers and we ask them what they have done, we expect them to explain the command they used, rather than what they achieved.

• She added: ‘You don’t have to teach children computer skills in the same way you don’t have to teach them to breathe.’

The report had to be filmed again, because the producers wanted them to talk about how they were using the computers. The children were a bit taken aback, because their computer usage was so ‘normal’.

Talking to the children at Redhill Primary reveals some interesting thoughts and practices. Not one child is frightened of computers. In addition, each class has a plethora of children who have taught their parents how to use a computer.

Doubtless, this is partly because of the way in which computing and the Internet are seen as an integral part of every lesson. Indeed, Mrs Noel-Storr encourages teachers to incorporate some element of computing in as many of their lessons as possible.

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