Year 11
The students will continue to develop their programming skills during Year 11. Programming continues to be embedded throughout the course, with the students having many opportunities to practice and develop their programming skills.
| Topic(s) | Key content to be learned | Assessment | |
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Autumn Term |
Data representation
Network Security |
The student will study how units, numbers, keyboard characters, images and sound are represented in binary The student’s programming input will be string manipulation as well as reading and writing to files Students will learn how to prevent attacks to computer vulnerabilities. |
Written exam style assessment |
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Spring Term
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Programming languages and integrated development environments
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The students will learn about the differences between high-level and low-level computer languages and also learn the features of integrated development environments (IDEs) Programming will look at additional techniques such as records and the use of SQL to search for data |
Written exam style assessment |
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Summer Term
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System Software Programming fundamentals, additional programming techniques and revision
Ethical, legal and environmental concerns and revision
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Students will learn how different operating systems and utility systems work with the computer systems
Impact of technology on different aspects of life and the legislation behind it as well as practicing their recall skills |
Written exam style assessment |
