Curriculum Planning documents should enable schools to translate curriculum policy statements into practice, achieving a consistency of approach and organisation to ensure continuity and progression. Planning should take into account long, medium and short term perspectives. The QCA schemes of work offer long and medium term planning.

Short term planning

Based on the long and medium term planning, teachers can plan for their own year group or class. Individual teachers' schemes of work should include:

• Preparation required for the lesson
• Resources
• Learning objectives
• Technical Vocabulary
• Assessment
• Activities and organisation of the introduction, main activity and plenary sessions
• Homework (if applicable)

Sample lesson plan proformas for use in the classroom have been created and can be downloaded or printed from this site. A separate zip file is also available to download which, when executed, will unzip all of the files to your hard disc.

Document Title File Type (other than pdf) Compressed File Name             Lesson Plan Template   Checklist for 3 part ICT lesson (pdf)   Support on the Internet for lesson planning   Unit 1E Lesson Plans Unit 1E Unit 2B Lesson Plans Unit 2B Unit 3A Lesson Plans Unit 3A Unit 4E Lesson Plans Unit 4E Unit 5D Lesson Plans Unit 5D Unit 6A Lesson Plans Unit 6D Lesson Plans               Unit RA - Foundations in ICT (pdf)   Unit RB - Using Drawing Tools (pdf)   Unit RC - Control and sound (pdf)   Unit RD - Moving and assembling pictures (pdf)   Unit RE - Understanding instructions and making things happen (pdf)