KS3 ICT

Royds School LeedsRoyds School Leeds

What was happening...

• Boring units of work• Uptake at KS5 poor• Students completely uninspired• Understanding ICT & Computing• Options evening

...the national Curriculum

1. Finding information (4)2. Developing ideas (6)

– test predictions, discover patterns and relationships, change rules and values– use ICT to make things happen by planning, testing and modifying a sequence of

instructions, recognising where a group of instructions needs repeating, and automating frequently used processes by constructing efficient procedures that are fit for purpose

1. Communicating information (3)2. Evaluating (3)

Examples of work from government

...what the department decided to do

Year Order Unit Content

7

1 Intro to the network and good housekeeping

Folders structureShared area; Windows

2 Presenting information Gathering info; AnimationHyperlinks

3 Internet & Email Searching criteria;To, Cc, BcAttachments; Internet Safety; Favourites

4 Applications Tools; House stylesTransferring data between applicationsSaving, exporting and file types

5 Modelling Formulae; Graphs6 Programming Programming concepts; loops, inputs, outputs, conditions:

Scratch

8

1 Modelling What-if experimentsRelative and absolute cell referencing Goal seek; Mail merge; Functions

2 Data handling Table structure; Data validationQueries, forms and reports structure

3 Imaging Bitmap V vectorOptimisation and file types; Tools

4 Web design Web management; Page layoutHyperlinks; html Templates; Site definitionsButtons; Dynamic content (e.g. roll overs)

5 Programming Python