Year 8 – Computer Science

Head of Subject: Mr C Mueller

Intended Outcomes

Knowledge will be embedded from the previous year and developed, introducing more advanced programming techniques with physical computing, web technologies and more complex computing theory. 

  • Course Implementation

    Microbit Programming  

    Students will embed key programming concepts from the previous year delving further into problem solving to real world briefs using sequence, selection and iteration.  Students will be working towards completing weekly projects to real world problems, to aid their progress towards this, students will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.  

    Website Creation with HTML  

    Students will discover the backbone of every website with an in depth study at HTML coding, extending onto website style looking into CSS and its use in the real world.  Students will be working towards completing weekly tasks to real world problems and skill building along as they go, to aid their progress towards this, students will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.  

     

Learning Impact

Microbit programming aims to bring together all their learnt knowledge and skills about problem solving into weekly challenges which increase in skill and difficulty over time. This is teacher marked with individual written feedback provided.  

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