Computing News

Key Stage 3 Computing

This half term sees Year 7 completing a programming unit using BBC Micro:Bits. This unit has seen them complete a range of challenges and games using the Micro:Bit website. They will be exploring digital media, looking at social media influencers and why they have a huge impact in young people’s lives. The students will be creating an interactive presentation, including sound and videos all about these social media influencers.

Year 8 are learning about designing their own music festival and have planned a website to promote it. The students will be incorporating a variety of features into their websites, including scrolling text. We will be investigating the programing language, HTML that sits behind the websites and challenging the students by asking them to write some HTML code to help to produce their websites.

Year 9 are learning about computational thinking and understanding how programs and computers think and work. They will be exploring flowcharts, pseudocode and then looking and creating mini-programs based on the flowcharts and pseudocode into python. This will give the students an insight into GCSE Computer Science. 

GCSE Computer Science

Year 11 are preparing for their final GCSE exams. The students have been spending the time learning about the practical paper and how to answer some of the questions. All students are working hard and I wish them huge success with their GCSEs.

BTEC Creative Media Production

Year 11 have completed their final 10-hour practical exam. There has been some amazing work produced. Well done!

Year 7 and Year 8 Computing Club

The students can come along and build a Lego robot and then start to program these to make them move using BBC Micro:Bits. Come along from Monday, 3rd June in room 53 at lunchtime.

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