Curriculum Allocation
Computing is taught for one 100 minute lesson per fortnight.
Curriculum Period 1:
Curriculum content
Unit 1 - Data representation
The aim of this unit, is to build upon the knowledge acquired in Year 7 on the binary topic and develop a more thorough understanding.
Lesson 1 - Review of Binary
Lesson 2 - ASCII
Unit 2 - HTML
The aim of this unit, is to introduce HTML scripting to develop a website.
Lesson 1 - Introduction to HTML
Lesson 2 - Formatting webpages and adding images
Lesson 3 - Further HTML Scripting
Lesson 4- 6 - Design and Create a website
Assessment
Students will complete a computer based assessment on the lessons covered above.
The assessment will be 30 minutes and will include multiple choice questions, a skill based task and an extended writing question.
Curriculum Period 2:
Curriculum content
Unit 2 - My Digital world
This unit aims to build student's understanding of how they can trust a source of information and stay safe when using technology
Lesson 1 - Trustworthy sources of information
Lesson 2 - Effective methods of searching the Internet
Lesson 3 - Copyright
Lesson 4 - Avoiding online dangers
Assessment
Students will complete an assessment based on Python covered in lesson taught up until the assessment. It will be a computer based assessment.The assessment will be 30 minutes and will be both multiple choice and a skill based task to assess their understanding of the programming concepts covered in lessons.
Curriculum Period 3:
Curriculum content
Unit 3 - My Digital world
This unit aims to build student's understanding of how they can trust a source of information and stay safe when using technology
Lesson 5 - Dealing with Cyber abuse
Lesson 6 - How to avoid online scams
Unit 4 - Binary
This unit builds upon students current binary knowledge.
Lesson 1- Binary addition
Lesson 2 - Representing Images
Lesson 3 - Representing Text
Lesson 4 - Representing Sound
Lesson 5 - Hexadecimal
Lesson 6 - Units of Computer Memory
Assessment
Students will complete a computer based assessment on the lessons covered above.
The assessment will be 30 minutes and will include multiple choice questions, a skill based task and an extended writing question.
Subject advice and guidance
If you need any further guidance then please contact your child’s teacher via email:
r.plant@endon.shaw-education.org.uk
g.brownsett@endon.shaw-education.org.uk