what? at all? not as KS4?

even if KS4 lessons are offered, are the other  subjectsgoing to deliver ICT or are they just going to use ICT by making powerpoints or typing up coursework? How will that prepare them for GCSE courses?

madness

I'm pretty sure that you HAVE to supply ICT lessons for KS3! At least one a week!

Are you an ICT teacher? If so, leave. If not, insist that an SLT level person manages and monitors ICT.

It is a legal requirement to ensure that the NC is delivered and reported to parents, at least once in each key stage (end of Year 9 and Year 11). Who is going to write those reports and do the assessment?

If I was a parent, I would already be on the phone to Ofsted to complain to make sure they come in as soon as possible.

The next Ofsted will be very uncomfortable. Your SLT must have a deathwish. Read any recent (last 12 months) Ofsted reports and if the school is doing what you say yours is, they got creamed. Which these days could affect the school financially.

One assumes that the decision is financially driven anyway, so this could make matters worse.

Clearly one has to doubt the judgement of the head, and working in a school where the head has lost the plot is not something I would wish to do again.

As for legal requirment to teach discrete lessons. No, there are very few subjects that must be taught (RE comes to mind). And ICT is not one of them.

There are a number of schools I work in that have an ICTAC approach to delivering ICT. There is an ICT co-ordinator, who is not an ICT teacher, and each subject HoD has to provide a contribution to the ICT SoW from their subject. The LEA advisor is also part of the scheme providing a level of support to ensure consistency across all schools in the LEA who approach ICT this way.  Schools not part of the scheme are watching closely.

The SoWs I've seen are not trivial although they are very much based around office applications. This approach seems to be growing in popularity.

There is a particular school in the West Country that provides something of a benchmark for this approach to delivering ICT.

It should be remembered that ICT in primary schools is almost always delivered by the class teacher so it's not that unfamiliar approach.

Control is often delivered by D&T, even in schools with an ICT department, because the skills are more likely to be there alongside electronics.

Key stage 4 ICT in these situation is almost always a subset of business studies.

Gretch35:

I'm pretty sure that you HAVE to supply ICT lessons for KS3! At least one a week!

That's not statutory.  You HAVE to deliver the Programmes of Study but if a school believes it can do so via a vehicle other than ICT lessons then they are well within their rights to do so.

Personally don't think they can but ...