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Key Stage 3 Computing

This final half term sees Year 7 exploring digital media. They are exploring social media influencers and looking at 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 they have planned a website to promote this. The students are incorporating a variety of features into their websites, including scrolling text. They are investigating the HTML programming language that sits behind the websites and are starting to write some HTML codes to help produce their websites.

Year 9 are learning about sound and video editing and are currently in the process of creating an advert for a holiday. They have downloaded suitable music and sound effects. Using Audacity, they are mixing the music and effects together to create the audio track for the advert. They will then download video clips and start to edit these and add the sound track. I am looking forward to seeing the finished products.

GCSE Computer Science

This term has seen the year 11 cohort complete their GCSE Computer Science exams. They have been an absolute pleasure to teach and have worked exceptionally hard and made me extremely proud! Good luck, girls in your future career paths.

Year 10 have almost completed all the theory for paper 1, Principles of Computer Science. This theory consists of systems architecture and software, looking at data representation including binary, hexadecimal and sound, learning about the security of networks and how different networks are structured including the internet. The final learning will be about ethical and environmental issues surrounding Computer Science, including legislation.  They have also started revisiting Python programming language from Key Stage 3. You have all worked extremely hard this year and I look forward to next year when the main focus will be Paper 2, focusing on the practical elements of the course and intervention will also begin.

Mrs Bennett

Curriculum Leader for the C.A.T. Faculty

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  • International School Award