| Information Communication Technology (ICT) at St Peter's |
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The aim of this faculty is to make sure that everyone can use ICT to solve problems in all subjects. Everyone in the school has access to the school network and to the Internet for research purposes. All students are responsible for keeping their user areas tidy and deleting work no longer needed. You are also responsible for using the equipment sensibly and making sure that others do as well. IT2 is available every lunchtime and after school for students to complete work. See Mrs Browne at breaktime to book a computer.
ICT at Key Stage 3
| Year 7 |
Autumn Term
In the first term, we will be finding out how good your IT skills are. You will be looking at different research techniques and different types of graphics formats. You will also be showing us how well you can plan and improve a presentation. You should be able to look your own and at other peoples presentations and make suggestions for improving them.
Spring Term
You will be learning how to use spreadsheets to model different situations and a special function that will help you find the best price to pay. During this term, you will be looking at databases and collecting and analysing information. You will learn what a hypothesis is and how to make and test one.
Summer Term
Your summer exam will be this term. You will have a written test to see what you have remembered about IT. There will also be a practical test on the computers to see how well you can follow instructions. For the rest of the term, you will be learning about control and use some special software to write instructions for different situations. You will also have a project to work on. |
| Year 8 |
Autumn Term
In this term you will be doing some work on Public Information Systems. That is more control and monitoring and presentation planning for a given audience.
Spring Term
You will be looking at designing web sites for a given purpose.
Summer Term
Exams this term! You will be tested on the theory that has been taught to you during the year and also be given a practical exam to test your IT skills. Your end of term project will include the use of databases, spreadsheets and some mail merge. |
| Year 9 |
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This is a very important year, we have to give you a key stage 3 level of achievement at the end of this year. You should know what level you are on. Find out what you have to do to get to the next level.
Everything you do this year is going to concentrate on you improving your use of IT. Remember that IT is not just using the equipment, it is knowing what you want, selecting the best programs for the job and, most importantly, PREPARATION. Before you do anything on the computers, you must have planned out what you are going to do and how you will be doing it. The next most important part is EVALUATION. That is looking at what you have done and commenting on what you did and how it could be improved. You will be doing various projects this year to show your understanding of the above in a variety of situations. |
ICT at GCSE
GCSE ICT follows the AQA specification. The course is divided into three parts:
Part 1: Board Set Assignment (30% of final mark)
Students are asked to solve problems using information given to them by the examination board. This will be started in January/February of Year 10 and it is expected that this part of the course will be finished by the end of October in Year 11. Part 2: Project (30% of final mark)
Students define a problem, break this down into sub problems for which they design and implement reusable solutions. This is started around November of Year 11 and completed by the end of the Easter term. All coursework has to be handed in for the end of the Easter term of Year 11.
Part 3: Written examination (40% of final mark)
This will be sat in May/June of year 11.
| Year 10 |
Autumn Term
The first thing you will do is learn about the different software packages available and spend some time going through the more complex features of spreadsheets and databases. The Board set assignment – the practice run - You will be given an old assignment to work through. You will learn how to set out the Analysis section, what you are expected to do for a good design, how to annotate and complete the implementation and testing, and how to write an evaluation.
Spring Term
The board set assignment will be given to you and you will have two weeks to write the analysis. When the analysis has been marked, you will then be given two to four weeks to complete each of the tasks. The first two tasks should be finished before the end of this term.
Summer Term
Completion of the Board Set Assignment. This will be finished, and handed by the end of this term. They will be marked over the summer holidays. During this term, you will complete the board set assignment. You also have your summer examination which will be a written paper and will help us decide which level paper you will be taking next year. |
| Year 11 |
Autumn Term
Your board set assignment marks will be given to you. You may have tasks back and complete or improve any that need it. You will spend the first half term learning about different types of computer network. You will also be shown some old projects and will start preparing for your own project. The project will be started in the second half term. You will have finished the introduction, broken the system down into sections and have completed the analysis for one of these sections by the end of term. You also have your mock examination this term, so should be spending some time on the theory part of the course. A topic list will be given to you by the end of November.
Spring Term
This is the busy one! By the end of this term you will have to hand in all your coursework. You need to plan your time well and make sure you leave time to produce solutions to all your problems. Keep to the deadlines given to you.
Summer Term
The lessons this term will be concentrating on the theory examination. You will be given theory lessons, past papers and online tests. Use the revision web sites to help you. |
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