Our curriculum is designed to underpin our school values of:
The School and the Governors share a commitment to raising aspirations of pupils at the school.
Respect
We develop routines that are consistent across the school to enable students to respect each other and take pride in their learning.
​Diversity is empowered by allowing students to bring their own cultural or religious influences into projects that they develop.
Misconceptions are addressed in lessons to allow students to see the benefit of learning from their mistakes. Students respect each other as they learn from their own and others mistakes.
High Aspirations
​Through the use of real-life examples in both Computing and Business, students can aspire to many different career paths in many fields of work or further education.
We encourage students to build resilience from their first lesson and add challenge individually so that all students aspire to work hard.
Students are encouraged to keep up to date with the ever-changing Business and Computing world in order to promote enthusiasm and curiosity.
Confidence
The building blocks of problem solving is developed in all years for computing. We use pseudocode to break down the task regardless of the end product. Retrieval is used in Business & built upon through every element of the course.
Students develop confidence by testing their work & seeing how it develops through each stage. Students are taught that different elements will take different times depending on complexity & therefore that we may all work at different paces. This promotes respect.
Resources are fluid & updated regularly in response to students’ evolving love of the subject & to keep up to date with emerging trends & software
Miss Pownall
Curriculum Leader
Mr Dearden
Teacher
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Our Computing Curriculum Journey
Begin your new journey from Primary School with us
Year
7
Introduction to Computing
Using Media
Careers
Scratch Programming
App Developer
Careers
Digital Literacy
PSHCE
Year
9
Photoshop
Careers
Python Turtle
Spreadsheets
Careers
Year
8
Computer Networks
Careers
The Digital World
PSHCE
Binary
HTML
Databases
Careers
Python
Careers
Flow Charts, Pseudocode & Algorithms
Year
10
Java Practical Programming
Ethics
PSHCE
Network Security
Careers
Computer
Networks
Careers
Systems Software
Careers
Memory and Storage
System Architecture
Careers
Component 1 Revision
Python Practical Programming
Careers
Year
11
Algorithms
Programming Fundamentals
Careers
Boolean Logic
Robust Programs
Careers
IDE’s
Exam Preparation
Careers
Component 2 Revision
Component 1 Revision