Systems Software
Students will develop their knowledge specifically of the CPU and its inner workings, learning how it handles data from user input and the computer’s main memory. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Memory and Storage
Students will develop a deep understanding of the integral relationship between a computer’s memory and storage, they will discover the differences and why certain storage types are suitable for specific tasks. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Computer Networks, Connections and Protocols
Student will develop their understanding of networking and communication of data, learning specific industry wide protocols that govern the transmission of data from place to place. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Network Security
Student gain an insight into digital safety, learning in depth specific attacks on business and data in general, they will learn how to spot these attacks within a computer system and how best to manage and deal with any attacks that may arise. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Systems Software
Students will take a look at the differences between hardware and software, how best we can break software down into different categories and apply principles learnt in previous units to make recommendations of software and to users using that software for best practice. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Ethical, Legal and Cultural
Student will analyse specific laws that affect the Computing industry, this extends into dealing with moral, ethical, environmental and cultural issues with Computing and how the industry is continually adapting to constant changes within the online world. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.
Python Programming.
There will be a focus throughout all of Year 10 in regard to programming, skills will be built upon from the previous years of study, everything students might face in a GCSE exam is gone over and embedded to ensure they can tackle any real world programming problem they may face. Students will have weekly challenges that embed knowledge from taught sessions in the form of workbook theory challenges and will have weekly verbal feedback and complete regular multiple-choice quizzes.