Computing
| Head of Department | Mr J Rooke |
Curriculum Overview
Year 7
- Autumn Term 1: E-safety
- Autumn Term 2: Future Technology project
- Spring Term 1: Scratch programming
- Spring Term 2: Hardware/software/input/output
- Summer Term 1: Binary, flowcharts, computational thinking
- Summer Term 2: Data representation - images/spreadsheet skills
Year 8
- Autumn Term 1: Photoshop project
- Autumn Term 2: Small basic programming
- Spring Term 1: Computer hardware and software
- Spring Term 2: Encryption and compression, imitation game
- Summer Term 1: Web development project
- Summer Term 2: Web development project
Year 9
- Autumn Term 1: Programming project, introduction to algorithms
- Autumn Term 2: Programming project, introduction to algorithms
- Spring Term 1: The Internet and World Wide Web
- Spring Term 2: Ethical hacking and dangers online
- Summer Term 1: AI and future computers
- Summer Term 2: iMedia project
Year 10
Computing
- Autumn Term 1: Computational thinking, python programming, hardware and software
- Autumn Term 2: Binary and data representation, programming project
- Spring Term 1: Networks, structure and protocols of the Internet, programming project
- Spring Term 2: Cyber and network security, encryption and compression
- Summer Term 1: Hardware, Von Neumann, embedded and operating systems, storage, memory and file sizes
- Summer Term 2: Software - utility vs. application, programme testing, robustness and hacking
Year 11
Computing
- Autumn Term 1: Issues and impact (environmental, ethical, legal), translators, binary
- Autumn Term 2: Programming (truth tables, logic statements) project design
- Spring Term 1: Searching and sorting algorithms, AI and machine learning, future internet
- Spring Term 2: Revision
- Summer Term 1: Revision
- Summer Term 2: Revision