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Computing

Year 7

E-safety – how to use a computer safely

  • Programming – using variables, inputs, outputs variables, selection, loops and identifying errors
  • Computer Hardware – internal & external devices, input & output Devices
  • Computer Software – system software, utility software & application software
  • Spreadsheets – formatting, formulae & functions, sorting & filtering, making graphs.
  • Website Design – designing & making websites using HTML code.
  • Data Representation –Binary, denary & hexadecimals.

Year 8

  • E-safety – good e-housekeeping, internet safety, encryption & dealing with malware
  • Computational Thinking – decomposition & design using flow-diagrams
  • Programming – dry-run testing & trace-tables, iteration, lists, subroutines
  • Spreadsheets – advanced functions, modelling data
  • Databases – tables, forms, queries, relationships & reports
  • Logic – logic gates & truth tables
  • Data Representation - how we represent instructions, character-sets, images & sound as data.

Year 9

  • Computational Thinking – abstraction, decomposition, algorithmic thinking & identifying patterns
  • Programming – string handling, file handling & exception handling
  • Algorithms – search & sort algorithms
  • Spreadsheets – macros & mail-merge
  • Databases – SQL
  • Legislation – data protection regulation, computer misuse act, copyright designs & patents & regulation of investigatory powers acts
  • Computing Ethics - how emerging technology may affect the environment, people and society