Computing

• Introduction to the school network and Netiquettes

Students will be given access to school networks, including Edulink and Office 365 and discuss netiquette.

• File management learn how to organise their files

Students will acquire the skills to access and use OneDrive in order to ensure work is organised.

• Searching the web

Students will learn how to conduct an effective google search and consider the reliability and usefulness of online resources.

• Touch typing

Students will learn the skills of touch typing contributing to enhancing their efficiency as learners. 

• Hardware Input and Output Devices

Students will learn about input and output devices and how they are used. 

• System Software including Operating Systems

Students will develop the knowledge to distinguish between Operating Systems and application software. 

• Storage Devices

Students will be introduced to secondary storage devices and their uses. 

• Introduction to computational Thinking

Students build on their prior learning and begin to consider four Computational thinking techniques used to solve a given problem. 

• Introduction to Algorithms

Students will learn how to write and understand algorithms written in pseudocode and/or flow diagram.

• Data representation – Storage units and Binary numbers

Students will learn how Binary data is stored and the differences between them.  They will also learn how to convert binary to denary and denary to binary.

• Visual Programming – Edublocks

Students will consider programming such as sequencing, variables, selection, and count-controlled iteration.

• Utility Software

Students will learn about the purpose and use of common utility programs for computer security.

• Networks

Students will learn about LAN and WAN and then their uses are appropriate.

• Algorithms

Students will develop their prior learning and begin to write pseudocodes and create flowcharts.  

• Sequence and Selection

Knowledge of algorithms will be developed further as students will learn how to use sequence and selection with their algorithms.

• Iteration

Students will continued to build on prior learning as they will begin to include loops in their algorithms.

• Binary Addition

Students will learn to add two binary numbers.

• Introduction to Python Programming

Students will be introduced to text-based programming with Python. They will learn to work with text and selection.

• Representing: Images

Students will develop an understanding of how images are represented on computers.

• Representing: Sound

Continuing on previous learning, students will learn how sound are represented on computers.

• Study how processors work.
• Investigate computer memory and storage.
• Explore modern network layouts and how they function.
• Build skills in the ever- important realm of cybersecurity.
• Investigate how types of software are used within computer systems.
• Stretch wider comprehension of how computers and computing affect ethical, legal, cultural and environmental issues.

• Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impacts of digital technology
• Algorithms
• Programming fundamentals
• Producing robust programs
• Boolean logic
• Programming languages and integrated Development Environments
• Dedicated programming lessons alongside theory throughout the year

 

• Fundamentals of programming
• Fundamentals of data structures
• Systematic approach to problem-solving
• Theory of computation
• Fundamentals of data representation
• Fundamentals of computer systems
• Fundamentals of computer organisation and architecture
• Consequences of uses of computing
• Fundaments of communication and networking

• Fundamentals of databases
• Big Data
• Fundamentals of functional programming
• Systematic approach to problem-solving
• Non-exam assessment - the computing practical project