Desktop publishing
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Why this why now
Pupils are ready to progress from working with text or images separately to combining them to communicate more effectively. This unit introduces desktop publishing as a purposeful way to create documents with impact. Pupils begin to see how layout, design, and style choices affect how a message is received. Learning this now helps them plan and present information clearly in posters, newsletters and other real-world formats ensuring they recognise that when they create information it will need to be presented in a way that is suitable for its intended audience.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can store and use media content on digital devices.
- Pupils recognise that content is generated for an audience.
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils are ready to progress from working with text or images separately to combining them to communicate more effectively. This unit introduces desktop publishing as a purposeful way to create documents with impact. Pupils begin to see how layout, design, and style choices affect how a message is received. Learning this now helps them plan and present information clearly in posters, newsletters and other real-world formats ensuring they recognise that when they create information it will need to be presented in a way that is suitable for its intended audience.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can store and use media content on digital devices.
- Pupils recognise that content is generated for an audience.
Desktop publishing
In this unit pupils will explore how text and images can be used to communicate messages. They will use desktop publishing software to make careful choices of font size, colour, and style to improve documents. They explore a range of page layouts using templates and placeholders as design tools.
6 lessons in unit
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