Unit

Description

Assessment

AUTUMN
Unit 1: Media

A taste of the types of skills you would be required to show for GCSE Media

Ongoing assessment creating a magazine cover

Unit 2: Spreadsheets (ICT)

Building on your spreadsheet skills from year 8 also a taste for the KS4 ICT course

End of unit Practical assessment

SPRING Unit 3: Programming C#

Building on your programming skills another taste for GCSE Computer Science.

End of unit assessment

Unit 4: Web Design

Understanding the methods of creating websites and looking at how to manipulate and change them using HTML and CSS.

End of unit practical assessment

SUMMER Unit 5: Illustrator

Discover what Vector Graphics are and create products using Illustrator.

Ongoing assessment


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Year 9

In Year 9 students make choices as to the subjects they study in key stage 4 (Years 10 and 11). Therefore the skills, knowledge and understanding that is required is much closer to that of key stage 4, to help students consider if a subject is "for them"…

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