Head of Department:

Ms J Wainwright

Teachers:

Mr S Agnew, Mrs L Bartlett, Mr D Butler, Mr A Davies, Mr A Gower, Mr M McGarry, Mrs K Pask, Mr D Tilley

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Key Stage 3

Topics in Year 7 ICT

• The Network, file management, using the VLE and email
• Health & Safety in the ICT environment
• E-safety
• Presentations
• Finding and selecting information
• Modelling
• Sequencing
• DTP

Topics in Year 8 ICT

• E-safety
• Website creation
• Spreadsheets
• Programming

Topics in Year 9 ICT

• E-safety
• Databases
• Email protocol
• Spreadsheets
• Safe working practices
• Presentations
• Searching for valid and reliable information
• Creating appropriate business documents

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Year 10 & 11 Core ICT

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

OCR National award in ICT - this will be combined with the core ICT and will be equivalent to 2 GCSEs grade A* to C
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

Year 10 and 11 GCSE Computing from September 2012

OCR specification J275

We will cover three modules over the two years:

• Module 1 – unit A451 – Computer Systems and Programming (Written Paper 40%)
• Module 2 – unit A452 – Practical Investigations (Controlled Assessment 30%)
• Module 3 – unit A453 – Programming Project (Controlled Assessment 30%).

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AS/A2 Level ICT and Computing

We follow the OCR course for both A Level ICT and A Level Computing

AS/A2 ICT

OCR course specification

AS – 2 mandatory units:

Information, Systems and Applications

• Data, information, knowledge and processing
• Software and hardware components of an information system
• Characteristics of standard applications software and application areas
• Spreadsheet concepts
• Relational database concepts
• Application software used for presentation and communication of data
• The role and impact of ICT – legal, moral and social issues

Structured ICT Tasks

• Design
• Software development
• Testing
• Documentation

A2 – 2 mandatory units:

ICT Systems, Applications and Implications

• The system cycle
• Designing computer-based information systems
• Networks and communications
• Application of ICT
• Implementing computer-based information systems
• Implications of ICT 

ICT Project

• Definition, investigation and analysis
• Design
• Software development, testing and installation
• Documentation
• Evaluation

AS/A2 Computing

OCR course specification

AS - 2 mandatory units:

Unit F451: Computer Fundamentals

• Hardware
  
• Software
  
• Data: its presentation, structure and management
  
• Data transmission and networking
  
• Systems development life cycle
  
• Characteristics of information systems
  
• Implications of computer use

Unit F452: Programming Techniques and Logical Methods

• Designing solutions to problems
• The structure of procedural programs
• Data types and data structures
• Common facilities of procedural languages
• Writing maintainable programs
• Testing and running a solution

A2 - 2 mandatory units:

Unit F453: Advanced Computing Theory

• The function of operating systems
• The function and purpose of translators
• Computer architectures
• Data representation
• Data structures and data manipulation
• High-level language programming paradigms
• Programming techniques
• Low-level languages
• Databases

Unit F454: Computing Project

• Definition, investigation and analysis
• Design
• Software development and testing
• Documentation
• Evaluation
• The written report