Year 7
Year 7 students will be introduced to computer science theory and practical. But before we can do this all students are shown how to use the school system and email safely. We also go through a couple of touch-typing lessons in order for students to have good keyboard skills.
We cover aspects of theoretical knowledge such as hardware and spent a substantial amount of time on building up to programming and computational thinking. Students are required to increase their independence and resilience during the year.
Students have two lessons of Computing per fortnight in year 7 and one lesson in year 8. The topics covered are:
Year 7 | Year 8 |
· Introduction to the school network and Netiquettes
· Introduction to computational Thinking · Introduction to Algorithms · Data representation – Storage units and Binary numbers · Input and Output Devices · Hardware and Software · Storage Devices · Operating System Software · Visual Programming – Blockly |
· Utility Software
· Networks · Algorithms – Sequence and Selection – Iteration · Programming concepts · Binary Addition · Introduction to Programming in Python – Working with text – Input Text and numbers (variables) – Text manipulation · Data representation – Binary Addition – Images – Sound
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