Computer Science

The computer science curriculum is designed to offer students an initial grounding in three threads of study before focussing these skills during the GCSE years. 

Basic ICT Skills: these units are designed to develop and reinforce general ICT skills that students will require to progress through not only the next phase of education but also to survive in an ever increasing digital world. 

Being able to communicate and operate within this environment will open up many career paths but also equips students with the tools to master many of the challenges that life will throw at them with a key focused introduced around the use of social media (yr8) 
 
Computer Science: these are bespoke areas of study aimed at building the students’ knowledge of what makes a computer a computer.  Not only are two types of programming covered, block and written, they are also exposed to the various hardware components of a desk top pc and a network. 
 
One of the key cross over aspects within computer science is maths, with students having to convert between binary, denary and hexa-decimal. 
 
Upon completion of KS3, students can opt to study this further at GCSE level where they will embark on the Edexcel GCSE that develops their programming skills further (python) alongside theoretical and legal constraints surrounding computers and networks. 
After GCSE there are possible post16 options to study computer science at A-Level.