ICT, Computer Science & Business Studies
Facilities:
There are four computer rooms located in the ICT and Business corridor. All rooms are networked, running Windows 7 and equipped with the most up to date office suite along with a diverse selection of other software. Each room has 30 machines ensuring that every student has a computer in every lesson. |
KS3 Curriculum
Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
E-Safety Presentations Spreadsheets Programming Building a computer system |
Multimedia E-Safety Graphics Programming – Flowol & Kodu Creating video |
GCSE practice E-Safety Programming Computer systems Website design |
KS3 Assessment
Students in KS3 use learning journals to document their progress in lessons, these journals allow learning and understanding to be assessed regularly. Students will receive feedback from their teacher fortnightly. Summative assessment at the end of each unit (Normally 6-8 lessons) will update students on their current working at level. |
KS4
ICT – Creative iMedia level 1/2 Certificate
Useful Links
Course specification - http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/115888-specification.pdf
Course website: http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/creative-imedia-level-1-2-award-certificate-j807-j817/
Exam revision - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zqmtsbk
Assessment
Unit R081 : Pre-production skills (Written examination - 25%) Assessed through a 1 hour 15 minute examination paper set and marked by OCR. The examination will take place at the end of Year 11. The total number of marks available for the examination paper is 60.
Unit R082 : Creating Digital Graphics (Controlled assessment - 25%)
Unit R084 : Storytelling with a comic strip (Controlled assessment - 25%)
Unit R087 : Creating interactive multimedia products (Controlled assessment- 25%)
All Controlled assessment tasks are assessed internally under controlled conditions. Students must complete a controlled assessment task provided by OCR within 10 hours.