Year 7 ICT Curriculum
- Learning how to use school emails appropriately
- Learning how to access and use applications on Office 365
- Learn to organise a suitable folder structure and the importance of naming files
- Learn how to stay safe online
- Learn spreadsheet formula, using calculation operators, using numbers, contents of cells
- Learn structure of functions and parameters, sum, average, max, min
- Learn Spreadsheet charts/graphs
- Assessment: Cinema Evaluation Task creating a design of a cinema seating spreadsheet
- Researching about endangered animals and presenting findings in a report
- How to carry out proof checking
- Learn to reference sources and searching for relevant information online
- What are the basic programming constructs
- Learn the different data types program use
- Learn how to make use of the basic programming constructs like input, output, selection, conditions, iteration to create a game using small basic
- Understand what pixels are, what types of compression techniques there are for working with images
- Learning how to use Image editing software to produce particular effects
- Understanding why these techniques are in use and produce a Magazine cover
- Introduction to databases and how to write a query and produce data reports
- Develop creating a simple database table using Microsoft Access
- Learn how to interrogate a criminal database.
Year 8 ICT Curriculum
- Appropriate communication skills when using email within school and other professional settings
- Understanding the impact of ICT within our lives at home, work and in society
- Computer network hardware and storage
- Computer laws and regulations that may affect us personally and professionally
- Understanding the different types of networks and network topology
- Introducing the binary number system and being able to convert between denary to binary
- Being able to convert binary to hexadecimal to denary
- What is the internet and the Internet of Things and mobile data and the wider implications of this topic in society
- Producing algorithms using flowcharts and pseudocode, developing computational thinking, abstraction and decomposition
- Python
- Basic Output
- Input
- Variables
- Data types
- Casting
- Relational operators
- Calculations
- Sequence
- Nested Selection
- Iteration using for and while loops
- Applying python programming skills to solve challenges
- Making use of input, output, variables, casting, sequence, selection, iteration
- Pupils look at sources online and how to optimise searches for fact and bias content to assess information is reliable
- Pupils also check on how they reference content and how to carry out proof checking of documents
- Developing report writing skills as well as implement the above skills
- Pupils will be learning how to code in HTML and understand how a webpage can be formatted
- Pupils will also learn about CSS and how this can be used to stylize a webpage even further
- To understand how to make webpages accessible and user friendly to all
Year 9 ICT Curriculum
- Recap of using the DWS IT System
- Planning a project using IT software
- Event planning using Word, Power Point, Excel, Mail merge
- Python
- Basic Output
- Input
- Variables
- Data types
- Casting
- Relational operators
- Calculations
- Sequence
- Nested Selection
- Iteration using for and while loops
- Applying python programming skills to solve challenges
- Making use of input, output, variables, casting, sequence, selection, iteration
- Computational thinking
- Data representation Hexadecimal
- Looking at how characters, images and sound data is stored on a computer
- File compression
- Using and understanding the purpose of digital graphics to create products based on client scenarios for each given task
- Photoshop skills developed
- Non-automated cybercrime
- Understanding social engineering and it's impact on security
- Understanding risks, understanding how to protect against cyber attacks
- Network defences and stress testing systems