Head of Department:

Ms J Wainwright

Teachers:

Mrs L Bartlett, Mr A Davies, Mrs C Morrison, Mrs K Pask, Miss L Wilson

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KS3 ICT _{- Key Stage 3 co-ordinator Mrs C Morrison}

At St Ivo School in the ICT department we follow schemes of work covering the programmes of study by adapting resources designed and produced by the National Strategy for ICT. Our aim is to enable students to work with ICT by: Finding information, Developing ideas, Communicating information and Evaluating. It includes, but is much broader than, a set of technical competences in common software applications.

Our aim is to ensure that by the end of Key Stage 3, all students can use ICT securely, creatively and independently, are confident enough to keep their skills up to date, and are able to generalise from their ICT experiences. The knowledge, skills and understanding that they need in the subject are closely intertwined and may be summed up as follows.

• Knowledge: Students need some knowledge of the technology and technical terms associated with the ICT facilities that they use
• Skills: Students need both technical skills in using ICT facilities, such as how to use a particular software package to reorganise information for a new purpose, and information skills, such as skimming and sifting. They also need interpersonal skills; for example, in cooperating with others, both face to face and remotely, in an ICT-based task.
• Understanding: Students need to understand the concepts that underpin effective use of ICT; for example, when and when not to use ICT for a given purpose. They should appreciate how their use of ICT or of an ICT product might be improved, for example to make it more efficient, versatile, interesting or fit for purpose. Understanding helps them to become reflective and responsible users of ICT, with an awareness of the impact of ICT on daily life and society.

Topics in Year 7 ICT

• Using a Network - logging on, file management, use of VLE
• Health & Safety issues in the ICT environment
• Presenting information to different audiences
• Spreadsheets - building, refining and developing models
• Information - selecting sources, finding relevant information, assessing the reliability of information
• Gathering and storing information – editing and interrogating databases, their use in the real world
• Desktop publishing – incorporating corporate image. elements of effective design, capturing images, using templates

Topics in Year 8 ICT

• Health and safety - cyber bullying, personal safety issues
• Designing databases - developing methods of testing hypotheses, collecting data, framing questions and interrogation of data via simple and complex query
• Spreadsheet - developing the application of formulas, charts and graphs, using goal seek, relative and absolute cell references, gathering data to test a hypothesis, designing and preparing of a marketing-focussed business letter
• Designing and implementing a website -  HTML, root directories, web pages, hyperlinks, CSS to set up the standard layout of their site
• Sequencing instructions – planning and implementing instructions to predict outcomes before execution

Topics in Year 9 ICT

• Health and safety

The work in Year 9 is via extended project which cover all aspects of the programmes of study, giving students the opportunity to apply and develop their ICT skills in a variety of situations.

• Issues surrounding the A14
• Organising  a corporate event
• Healthy Eating

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Year 10 & 11 Core ICT from September 2010

OCR National Short Course Award in ICT - equivalent to 1/2 GCSE grade A* to C
Students study Unit 1 ICT Skills for Business and Unit 21 Creating Computer Graphics
Further information can be found here

Year 10 and 11 Optional ICT from September 2009

OCR National award in ICT - this will be combined with the core ICT and will be equivalent to 2 GCSEs grade A* to C
Year 11 students will study Unit 2 Webpage Creation and Unit 20 Animation for the WWW
Unit 2 Specification | Unit 20 Specification 

Year 10 students will study Unit 2 Webpage Creation, Unit 4 Multimedia Products, Unit 20 Animation for the WWW and Unit 23 Creating Video
Unit 2 Specification | Unit 4 Specification | Unit 20 Specification | Unit 23 Specification

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Applied AS/A2 Level ICT

We follow the AQA course - further details here

Modules covered in Year 12:

Unit 1: ICT and Society

Unit 2: ICT and Organisations

Unit 3: Data Handling

Which combine to give the Single Award AS grade

Unit 4: ICT Solutions

Unit 5: Fundamentals of Programming

Unit 7: Creating a Website

Which combine to give the Double Award AS grade

Modules covered in Year 13:

Unit 8: Project Management

Unit 10: Advanced Spreadsheet Design

Unit 12: Publishing

Which combine to give the Single Award A2 grade

Unit 9: Software Development

Unit 11: Communication and Networks

Unit 15: Supporting ICT Users

Which combine to give the Double Award A2 grade

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Post 16 - IT Diploma

The Information Technology (IT) Diploma is available at Level 2.

The Diploma is the equivalent qualification of 7 GCSEs (A*-C). Diploma centre Handbook.

Units Covered

1. The potential of technology
2. Exploring organisations
3. Effective communication
4. Skills for innovation
5. Technology systems
6. Multimedia
7. Managing projects

Students will also need to achieve a minimum standard in Personal, Learning and Thinking skills and Functional skills.