ICT at Budehaven School has developed dramatically over the past few years. We now have three designated ICT suites as well as smaller clusters throughout the school. Key stage 3.We have decided to create the new ICT curriculum, based on a theme for each year group. Each theme will allow the pupils to develop the skills and understanding needed to meet the ICT framework as well as incorporating Assessment for Learning and the SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning). Year 7 The year 7 theme is based on Internet Safety. Throughout the year the pupils will learn how to use the internet effectively and safely. Year 8 The year 8 theme is based on fantasy football. This uniti will give pupils the opportunity of group work as well as developing presentation and media based software packages. We are using the Schools Fantasy Football League website. Click here for more information. Year 9 The year 9 theme is based on a KS4 DiDA unit called 'Check it Out'. This unit of work focuses on producing work that is linked to the governments 'Five a Day' campaign. Pupils will produce complex spreadsheets and publications related to the Five a Day campaign as well as producing an e-portfolio to showcase their work.
Key stage 4.We are now offering 2 different Key Stage 4 ICT courses. The majority of students who opt for ICT will study the DiDA suite of courses. This is an EDEXCEL course and can give pupils the opportunity to obtain between 1 and 4 GCSE's. The majority of students will get 2 GCSE's. For more information about the DiDA course click here. We are also looking to introduce the OCR National course for students who opt for a more vocational key stage 4. This course also has the potential for students to obtain 1 - 2 GCSE's. For more information about this course click here. Key stage 5 We offer 2 courses in key stage 5. The first is an Applied ICT course where pupils will have the opportunity to contunue to develop ICT based skills and apply them to a business based scenario. For more information about the the course click here.The structure of the course at Budehaven, is as follows: Year 12 All three units are of equal weight and students are usually entered for the May/June exam window. | Units | Title | description
| | 1 | Using ICT to communicate
| This unit is coursework based. The students must produce a variety of documents for a ficticious Estate Agent. They will be graded based on the quality of the documents produced as well as their ability to show the processes they went through in creating the documents and also evaluating their work and their ability to do the work. | | 2 | How organisations use ICT
| This unit is an examined unit. Pupils are expected to rsearch and understand how ICT is used in Businesses including legislation and policies. The exam requires them to produce a pre-exam based material that goes towards their overall mark. | | 3 | ICT solutions for individuals and society
| This unit is coursework based. The students are required to show that they understand how to research on the internet, gather data. Input data into a database and analyse the data using spreadsheets. They then must produce a presentation to presemt the results of their presentation. The theme of this coursework assignment is 'Everything you need to know when buying your first car'. |
Year 13 All three units are of equal weight and students are usually entered for the May/June window. The A2 courses focus a lot more on how to work for a client and producing work that is of a professional standard. | Unit | Title | Description | | 4 | Working to a brief
| This unit is an examined unit. Unlike a formal exam, the exam submit various Briefs that students can choose from to work on. These briefs will usually cover a range of different software applications. The focus of this unit is project management, and students are assessed on their ability to plan a project using project management software and then use the plan to complete the brief. They also need to evaluate how well the project went including how well they used the plan.
| | 5 | Developing and creating website
| This unit is coursework based. Pupils will work for either a real or ficticious client and they must have client based meetings where they are required to create a website for the client. As well as creating the website, pupils must show that they have produced the website the client wanted as well as evaluated their work and their ability to work to a client specification. | | 6 | Publishing | Is the same as the website unit, except that they must create a 10 page document for a client. |
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