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Year 9 ICT Content Overview

Unit	Tasks	Term
Introduction	Networks and file management/ Self assessment	1
Internet safety (Social networking)	Research into and creation of published material warning other pupils of the dangers.	1
Unit 1: Data Handling and Communication	Home Computer survey: Create online data capture form, analyse data and create report for publication	1
Unit 2: Designing and implementing a computer system	School trip: Using ICT to manage and organise a school trip	1
Unit 3: Data logging and Control	Virtual Town: Create control programs that  run procedures in a virtual town	2
Unit 4: Manipulating images sound video	Group multi-media projects (including video, image and sound editing)	2
Key Skills	Preparation for key skills tests (Spreadsheets, word processing & databases)	3

Brief summary of the syllabus:

The National Curriculum programme of study for ICT in Key Stage 3 groups the knowledge, skills and understanding students need to acquire into themes. These themes, which characterise what people normally do when they work with ICT, are:

• Finding things out
• Developing ideas and making things happen
• Exchanging and sharing information
• Reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses

Students will continue to develop skills based upon the themes of the National Curriculum, and an assessment of their attainment level will be completed.

 What skills/attributes are being developed and examined?

Students develop theoretical knowledge and understanding by examining the general principles of information- processing in given situations and abstracting general principles from given examples. They identify a range of needs and opportunities, carry out systematic analysis, and design and evaluate effective ways of using ICT. Students use complex lines of enquiry to find and select information, using a wide range of resources.

Students will develop knowledge and understanding of the range and scope of information processing and communication applications and of the techniques and systems, including the software and hardware sub-systems needed to support them. They will use ICT terms and definitions appropriately and will be able to contrast and compare related ideas.

Students will use ICT to share, exchange and present work, demonstrating a clear sense of audience and purpose. They will discuss methods of detecting the loss or corruption of information and describe steps, which can minimise the likelihood of the abuse of personal information and reflect critically on their use of ICT and show understanding of the effects of its use in the wider world.

The skills, attributes and National Curriculum attainment levels will be examined through internal written assessment.

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What can parents expect to see in class work generally and in homework specifically?

Class work and homework will contain a variety of approaches, ranging from short ‘question and answer’; practical problem- solving and investigation, to extended pieces of work involving research and presentation of work using the computer for a particular audience.

 What can parents do to help at this stage in this subject?

• Check your childs’s ICT files and e-portfolio and ensure that it is well ordered and tidy.

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This half term Year 9  will be studying the following.

Social networking: Exploring the dangers as well as the positives of social networking and reviewing the core issues related to internet safety.

Task 1- Data Handling and Communication ( : Pupils create a web based data collection form to find about Bromsgrove pupils home computer use. Pupils learn to manage and organise data in a form that can be analysed and later presented to others.

Have a look at some of our online survey’s below!