ICT
| Staff | Mr Andrew Tunbridge |
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Head of Department |
Mr Dan White |
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| Mr Jonathon Snell | ||
| Mr Robert Courtice |
Our approach
We aim to provide students with the ICT skills that they will need for:
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their studies - employment
- their leisure
As far as possible we will teach students to use industry standard software
Whenever we can we will give students tasks that are business or work related.
We will set very high expectations for our students’ work – we will expect them to produce documents that are as good as, or better than the professional examples we show them.
Examples
Parents have frequently requested that we teach touch typing, so we spend the first 5-10 minutes of every lesson in Years 7, 8 and 9 practicing touch typing.
We teach students to use industry standard software such as Dreamweaver, InDesign, Fireworks and Photoshop from Year 7 onwards.
We teach some rules for good graphic design from Year 7 onwards, based on this excellent book: “The non-designers design book – by Robin Williams”
Curriculum Overview
Year 7, 8, 9
We have one lesson per week. Students learn to use a wide range of software including: Spreadsheet, Wordprocessor, Database (Access), Image manipulation (Photoshop and Fireworks), Web page editing (Dreamweaver), Video editing (MovieMaker), Desktop Publishing (InDesign) and Control software. Students follow a program of study that meets the National Curriculum requirements.
Years 10 and 11
All students have one core ICT lesson per week. In this time most students study for GCSE Business and Communications Systems – a work based course that reinforces essential work related use of ICT. Some students study for the iMedia Certificate which is a more practical course focussing on Digital Photography, Computer Animation and Multi-media systems, worth a B grade GCSE equivalent.
Students can also choose ICT as an option. For this they will either study for the CiDA (Certificate in Digital Applications) which is worth up to 2 GCSEs, or for the OCR Nationals ICT which is worth up to 4 GCSEs.
Years 12 and 13
Students can study Applied GCSE at AS and A2 level.