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About Consilium

Consilium Academies is a multi-academy Trust working across the North of England. It has nine academy schools located in Yorkshire, the North West, and the North East. Consilium is dedicated to enriching lives and inspiring ambitions for both students and colleagues.

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