Computing
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Introduction
Welcome to the IT Department. The aim of the Department is purpose driven, student empowering and striving for academic excellence. Is challenging, stretching, energetic, fun, ready to reward and celebrate students’ success. It equips, enables and releases students to live extraordinary lives, to dare to do their very best in their chosen field.
Computer Science will become an EBACC subject from January 2013. Click here to to read full article.
Curriculum Overview
Key Stage 3
Students in Key Stage 3 Study a wide range of key topics and produce mini projects within Computing. Homework is set on a weekly basis. Year 7 and Year 8 have 1 x 40 minutes lesson each week building into 2 x 40 lessons in Year 9.
Note: Topics are subject to change without prior notice.
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Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
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- Staying Safe in a Digital Age |
- Programming: Small Basic, Code Academy, YouSrc or Python |
- Apps Creation |
Key Stage 4
Building on a solid foundation at KS3 students are offered OCR GCSE Computing as one of their options. This is a two year course with a written examination an investigation and a programming project. Students will learn how to program in Python 3.2.5.