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Key Stage 3 Computing

Topics/Skills Taught

Year 7

  • Introduction to the school network

  • Under the hood of a Computer

  • Think like a Computer Scientist

  • Drawing and Manipulating shapes

  • Creating an animation

  • The foundations of computing

Year 8

  • Operating Systems

  • Command line interface

  • Binary

  • Instruction Set design

  • Programming using selection and Boolean expressions

  • Introduction to HTML

Year 9

  • Binary characters, ciphers and encryption

  • Representing Sound

  • Simple database tables

  • Searching

  • Introduction to Programming with Python

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Lunchtime Computing Club

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