Computer Science

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will be learning how to use the computer and the internet safely, to understand the impact of their online life on their real life.
– Pupils will begin exploring how computers work on the inside (in terms of parts) to prepare them for the technological world.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two small google form assessments.
– Pupils will also complete a cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will be building on their knowledge of computer hardware using software, using microbits and makecode programming, algorithms and flowcharts.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two in-class teacher assessments.
– Pupils will also complete a cumulative assessment.
– Pupils will be assessed on a mixture of their knowledge and application.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Number Systems in Computer Science: Denary, Binary, Hex
– Converting between them
– Adding binary numbers together
– Binary overflow
– Revision of the year so far in preparation for an exam, and then exploring HTML website making.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two Google Form assessments.
– Pupils will also complete a cumulative Google Form assessment.

Year 8

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will learn a little bit on how a text based programming language works compared to block based, and then connect it to algorithms (including flowcharts, sorting and searching).

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two small google form assessments.
– Pupils will also complete a cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will learn how computers turn electricity into actions using boolean logic, using gates that use binary to decide the next step.
– Pupils will also learn how computers represent numbers, words, images and sound as binary.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two in-class teacher assessments.
– Pupils will complete a cumulative assessment.
– Pupils will also be assessed on a mixture of their knowledge and application.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will be building on from digital safety to examine the basics of cybersecurity, which is more about protecting computer systems rather than just themselves.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will complete two Google Form assessments.
– Pupils will complete a cumulative Google Form assessment.

Year 9

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will explore how computers work on an electrical level, using boolean logic, and then explore the differences and links between hardware and software.
– Pupils will get deeper into Python, a text based programming language, as well as the programming concepts.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will have two short paper assessments.
– Pupils will also have one cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will learn Data Representation in a little more depth, recap of basics with hexadecimal, adding, shifting and image/sound calculations added on.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will have two teacher assessments that are peer marked to prepare for a cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Exploring how computer networks work, in a very basic level, including the internet.
– Pupils will revise topics learnt so far in the year in preparation for the summer exam, and experimentation with Raspberry Pi’s (small single-board computers).

How will my child be assessed this term?

– One assessment based on networks.
– One preparatory teacher assessment to prepare them for the summer exam.

Year 10

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will re-examine algorithms in a deeper degree, mastering sorting, searching and also pseudocode to prepare for their final exam in year 11
– Pupils will begin mastering Python programming, as well as exploring SQL databases and how to build them.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will have two short topic paper assessments, and one cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will learn data Representation in more depth, recap of everything so far with more focus on compression methods and image/sound file calculations.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will have two teacher assessments that are peer marked to prepare for a cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Pupils will explore deeper into cybersecurity topics such as malware, social engineering and policies, as well as revision of algorithms, revision for the summer exam and programming camp using Raspberry Pi.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Pupils will have one assessment based on networks
– One preparatory teacher assessment to prepare them for the summer exam.

Year 11

What will my child be learning this term?

– Revising topics from across all years, with a focus on algorithms, programming in Python, SQL databases and how computer systems work using hardware and software. This in preparation for paper 1 and paper 2 in the specification.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Two short paper topic assessments.
– One cumulative assessment.

What will my child be learning this term?

– Mixture of revision based off of mock results, such as pseudocode, trace tables, data structure.
– This is followed up by a mixture of cybersecurity for topics and then ethical/legal/environmental methods mixed in to foster discussion skills.

How will my child be assessed this term?

– Two short teacher assessments to test specific topics, one paper, two mock-like cumulative assessments spread across two lessons to allow pupils to find their weaknesses and adapt in between.