Curriculum and Assessment

Computer Science

Year 7 Computer Science

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Knowledge and Skills

Assessments

Supporting my Child

Autumn
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND BUILD A PAPER COMPUTER Folder structures and advanced email settings Recalling and using prior knowledge of Y8 content – what’s inside a computer, to create a label the components of a computer	ICT IN THE WORKPLACE AND PROGRAMMING Cross curricular links with Business to develop and show Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and other ICT skills are valuable in the workplace Developing programming skills using a text based programming language (Python)
Spring
ICT IN THE WORKPLACE AND DATA REPRESENTATION Cross curricular links with iMedia to explore creative planning and digital graphics Representing data in a computer – numbers and characters	BINARY LOGIC AND ALGORITHMS Determining the output based on different inputs Demonstrating this through Logic gates, truth tables and searching and sorting algorithms used in computers
Summer
COMPUTER NETWORKS Using knowledge from ‘build a paper computer’ unit to develop understanding of how devices are linked together and what hardware/software is required	PROGRAMMING Applying algorithms in text- based language to provide a solution