ICT Department
 

New! - Database and Spreadsheet presentations  - introductory guides for beginners.

ICT Resources for all Levels

Application Skills Tutorials (from DiDA)

 

Primary

Key Stage 3

- Year 7

DiDA - Diploma in Digital Applications - Years 8-10

Edexcel

Applied GCE

 - Post-16
Botball - sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar

 

Primary ICT...see samples of good work

The Department is teaching dedicated ICT lessons to Reception, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.  All students receive a 50 minute weekly lesson in ICT2.  The scheme being use in all years is the Spark Island ICT Adventure, published by Collins.

For more information on each unit of work, please see the relevant pages on the E-learning site.

Click here to visit Spark Island

Click here to visit Spark Island publisher website [Click Here]

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Key Stage 3 - Year 7 and Year 8 ...more information and resources

All students in Year 7 and Year 8 study Information and Communication Technology as part of a discrete, planned, timetabled programme taught by specialists. The curriculum is closely tied in with the National Curriculum for England (POS) and our schemes of work  incorporate the QCA-produced schemes which are not only well-detailed and  clearly structured but also provide a large bank of resources for staff and students.

Students work on relevant and meaningful assignments of varying lengths which strike a balance between skills and process foci. Wherever possible ICT assignments are tied into work from other subjects, to the benefit of the ICT and contributory subject curriculum, and of course the student. In addition, Teachers from many subjects are increasingly booking the ICT suites in which to work on subject related material with their students, to great success. ICT really has become cross-curricular!

To know more about the Key Stage 3 Curriculum please visit the QCA website and the DfES Standards site.

 

 

 
Years 8 - 11 - DiDA ...more information and resources
DiDA is the Diploma in Digital Applications, a revolutionary suite of three paperless qualifications from Edexcel that focuses on the practical application of technology.
...designed to stimulate students’ creativity and develop real-world, practical skills...

DiDA qualifications prepare students for the real world of work or further education.  They are designed to stimulate students’ creativity and develop real-world, practical skills that will motivate learning across a wide range of subjects.

As a suite of qualifications, DiDA offers progression from the Award (AiDA), which is equivalent to one GCSE, to the Certificate (CiDA), and on to the full Diploma (DiDA), equivalent to four GCSEs.

The suite of DiDA qualifications is designed to:

  • develop students’ ability to select and use digital applications appropriately and produce high quality outcomes; 
  • promote the use of digital applications for achieving a goal, rather than for their own sake;
  • enhance creativity and communication; 
  • equip students with some of the skills that they will need in the workplace or in further education or training;
  • develop project management skills; 
  • free students’ work from paper, making it organised, searchable, dynamic and transportable; and 
  • encourage students to reflect critically on their own and others’ use of digital applications.

 

 

 

GCE IN APPLIED ICT ...more information

 

The ICT Department would like to offer an exiting opportunity by running the Edexcel GCE in Applied ICT.  This is a ‘must-have’ skills course open to every post-sixteen student.  Highly motivating, it will develop the knowledge and skills students need to be competent and informed ICT users and practitioners.

 

The GCE in Applied ICT qualifies for UCAS points.  It gives students a wide choice of progression options into further study, training, or relevant employment.  Students who successfully complete the qualification will be well equipped to move onto degrees in related subjects such as e-business, multimedia, ICT and Information Management.

 

GCE Structure

 

This qualification adopts the GCE structure, the AS is the first half of the course, A2 the second, with each part contributing 50% of the total Advanced GCE marks.  The AS is made up of three equally weighted units and the A2 a further three.

 

Educational Trips & Work Experience “Putting Varied Work Experience back into Vocational”. 

 

With this new course there are plenty of opportunities in place for visits and work experience.  These are essential to the success of the course as the students will need to become more aware and there surroundings and how ICT impacts upon everyday life.   The ICT department will also work closely with local businesses in the ICT industry so as to bring in guest speakers and arrange trips to their places of work.  This is currently lacking in the current course format but is essential to the success of this one.

 

What Level is Right for Me?

 

We would like to offer this course on two levels both as a single AS Level which can be taken over one or two years and as an Advanced GCE – Single Award which would be taken over the two years.

 

The options available are:

 

  • AS Single Award 6 periods per week over one year.

  • A2 Level Single Award 6 periods per week over two years.