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Pupil run Computer Club

At my first placement school there is a pupil led computer club. This was an idea that a year five pupil had and he wanted to teach the year threes about various applications and features of Windows. He wanted to help the year threes perform better in class. The computer club was given the go ahead by senior managemnt at the school and then the running of it was given over solely to the year fives. The pupils sent round sign up sheets to the year three classrooms and a maximum of thirty were allowed to sign up.



The session I managed to catch the end of was the session on letter writing using Word. The pupils seemed really focussed and I was impressed by the level of expertise from the club leaders. The sessions are set up much like a typical lesson with an intro, an activity and then a plenary at the end. (Not to mention the behaviour policy being carried out throughout the session using the teacher's pens of course!) The pupils had even prepared a simple powerpoint presentation to help with teir introduction.



I was extremely impressed by the computer club. The concept of peer mentoring is one that is held in high regard and this club solely run by the year fives to teach the year threes is a fantastic example of the power of pupil led clubs. The year threes who attend are extremely enthusiastic about their tasks and all seem to think that their ICT skills have improved. It is great to see ICT being implemented so strongly in a school. After all, children are often more competent on computers than some adults so why not let the experts do the teaching?!