Curriculum Overview:

Key Stage 3

During years 7/8 – Students will be taught about computers, their history, how they work, how they interact with and understand each other and how to program them. This includes using a mixture of graphical and text-based programming via Lego Mindstorm Robots, Minecraft education edition, Scratch and Python.

During year 9 – the students will start working towards gaining qualifications in ICT Functional Skills starting at entry-level 3/Level 1 and raising to Level 2 by year 11 depending on ability. This will include:

· General use, security and settings

· The internet

· Email

· Word processing

· Spreadsheets

· Charts and Graphs

· Presentations

· Databases

Key Stage 4

During years 10/11 – the students will work towards gaining qualifications in ICT Functional Skills/Digital Functional Skills and Btec ICT Workskills at Level 1 and rising to Level 2 by year 11 depending on ability. This will include:

ICT

• General use, security and settings
• The Internet
• Email
• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Charts and Graphs
• Presentations
• Databases

Digital Skills

• Using devices and handling information
• Creating and editing
• Communicating
• Transacting
• Being safe and responsible online