Stage 3 - Starting at high school

Studying Computer Science at High School is more than just learning to program. This course is designed to help to develop you into a competent problem solver, creator of digital artefacts, self aware user of technology and, potential computer scientist of the future ...

Year 6 Intake Day Activities
Superheroes!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rbkyQfVt4sRpRHBoSx4xCF6sTX9J-D0yn06zOMJcI8M/preview?slide=id.p

For the intake day, you will take part in three activities - creating a graphic, editing a web page to create a meme and coding behaviours in a Scratch game - all about Superheroes! There are three things you need ...

Course Structure

Baseline assessments

How computers workhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WKcaPVD6ooL-p4SR3s-TAcdebzzLemlPetghCc6T3rI/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q_FnX2qpSLqm0kZkTyIR5mncXLofauMZOSHNPj66W_c/preview?slide=id.p

Algorithms to live byhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2pSBDx-buCa49kwgzx7Wews3Ud4mMz3Yo4nzCliano/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16Cla7lhxF277iAzPAhT6gjjsiuC7nyII8VGmAHDyjIY/preview?slide=id.p

Networkshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/19xKyuQalB_1pqKopdvTtfp_HKbNcXxrhucV4Sn1WKqU/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19cy-riufvwF8ILD4DjgRFnI0MhVdyVz4cfnVl-YSa_c/preview?slide=id.p

The World Wide Webhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1xZZoRyjx_ktaKBTs6-__iBAAOnrLGFM2T6fmVDPJzYQ/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15l1oEJOd26WlUQd1Veiq81cedmgI1qJPoWGuiLNQ6FE/preview?slide=id.p

Sound, camera, actionhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1ClRay1AoEGGIwJFkqZ_zM_b6yZ5cLyy4Xl-p4p4BmTE/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O_7sT-bUIYbS2239RPivesOKYSJf8GPhi0evTSdjUzM/preview?slide=id.p

Cyber securityhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdudrxIN9FGMEBQBZdsfuifJNBrk-0DeervcLcbT3Uw/previewhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UrF_TD7aobRXoiEYVKEfaGRe2TAi_l3nYDxAP8ByuA0/preview?slide=id.p

End of Key Stage Examination

What's next?

Also, during Year 8/9, your teacher will be talking to you about suitability to choose GCSE (and possibly A Level) Computer Science for further study. If you enjoy what you are studying, make sure that you tell your teacher!