Computing

1. Key skills unit covers using school system, including the gsuite, effectively.  Students will work collaboratively and learn how to create online documents.
2. Modelling data in spreadsheet software.
3. Programming using Scratch and establish the fundamental principles of coding.
4. Creating webpages with HTML.  Students will learn to hand code webpages using HTML.
5. Creating stop-frame animations with Adobe Fireworks.

Computing

1. Programming and problem solving using BBC Microbits.
2. Spreadsheet project to develop a more sophisticated use of formula and modelling techniques.
3. HTML and CSS with students learning the fundamentals of website technologies. This will revisit and build on skills acquired in Year 7
4. Introduction to programming with python, which is a text based language. Students will build on their understanding of programming gained in Year 7 (Scratch)
5. Sound editing to learn how sound is represented in computers and how it can be manipulated.

Computing

1. Databases with students understanding how databases are used.  Students complete a project to create a fully functional database.
2. Control Systems. Students develop their ability to write algorithms using flow charts.
3. Programming with python.  Students further develop their problem solving skills during a series of challenges. This will revisit and build on skills from previous years
4. Mobile Application development. Students design, create, test and evaluate a mobile application using a development environment designed for education.

1. Programming (throughout the year)

2. Fundamentals of data representation

3. Computational logic

4. Algorithms

5. Computational thinking and problem solving

6. Ethical, legal and environmental impacts

7. Operating systems and software

1. Non-exam assessment

2. Computer systems hardware and software

3. Computer networks

4. Cyber security

Pre-production skills (R081 - assessed by examination):

1. Client requirements

2. Analysis

3. Legislation

4. Planning

5. Design

Creating Digital Graphics (R082 -
internally assessed and
externally moderated)::

6. Following a project brief

7. Analysis of the task

8. Design

9. Gaining skills in graphics software

10. Creating the graphics

11. Review and evaluation

Creative Multi-page websites(R085 -
internally assessed and
externally moderated):

1. Following a project brief

2. Analysis of the task

3. Design

4. Gaining skills in web-authoring

5. Creating the website

6. Review and evaluation

Creating Digital Animations (R086 - internally assessed and externally moderated):

6. Following a project brief

7. Analysis of the task

8. Design

9. Gaining skills in animation

10. Creating the animation

11. Review and evaluation

Computer Systems:

1. The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices

2. Software and software development

3. Data types and data structures

4. Legal, moral, cultural and ethical  issues

Algorithms and programming:

5. Introduction to programming

6. Assembly language programming

7. Standard algorithms

Programming project:

8. Analysis

9. Design

Computer Systems:

1. Exchanging data with networks, databases, web technologies, encryption and compression.

2. Efficiency of algorithms

3. Advanced data structures

Algorithms and programming:

4. Elements of computational thinking

5. Problem solving and computational methods

Programming project:

6. Development

7. Testing

8. Evaluation