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Curriculum
KeyStage 3:
At Key stage 3 students study ICT 3 hours per fortnight. The curriculum aims to provide students with a number of opportunities to develop, practise and utilise IT skills to create a number of products that are suitable for a specific audience and purpose. From September 2013 we have now included computing and gaming units to enrich the learning of our students
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Year 7
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Year 8
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Year 9
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Esafety and Social Networking
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Creating Esafety Video
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IT for Business
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Virtual Tour
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Scratch Programming and Game Design
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Creative Media
(Sound and Video)
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Python Programming
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Robotics
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Business Modelling - Spreadsheets
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Game maker Programming
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Database
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Kodu Programming
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KeyStage 4:
Year 11 – OCR Level 2 - National Certificate
Curriculum Time – varies between 2 – 6 hours per fortnight depending on set.
Students currently study the OCR Nationals Level 2 in IT as a compulsory subject. The qualification is made up of various units including: IT for Business, Spreadsheets, Computer Graphics, Multi-Media, Video, Sound, and Animation design.
Year 10 – OCR GCSE ICT
OCR GCSE IT is now offered as an optional subject at KS4. The course has proved a popular choice for students. Students complete 2 controlled assessments (60%) of the final grade and 2 exams in Year 11 (40%) of the course.
Homelearning
Students are issued homelearning once a week based on the college homelearning timetable. Students complete a learning blog to enable them to reflect on their learning in lessons
Staff:
Mr. A. Jennings: Curriculum Leader of ICT
Mrs A. Bestwick: ICT and Media Teacher/ Cross Curricular Co-ordinator/ Applied Learning Co-ordinator.
Mr. P. Cant: ICT Teacher / Business and Enterprise Coordinator
Mr W Drain: ICT Teacher/ Acting Pupil Achievement Leader Year 7.
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