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All girls have a core ICT lesson from Infant through to Year 9.
The aim is to give them both practical skills in using a computer
and an understanding of the impact of technology on their lives.
ICT lessons are taught in dedicated ICT suites
using desktop computers. ICT is also used regularly
within the curriculum and class teachers have the opportunity
to book out laptops for use in their classrooms. Girls are encouraged
to use ICT whenever it is appropriate both at home and in school.
Year 7
In addition to the following, the class will be expected to learn touch typing using BBC Dance Mat.
Presentation Software
Powerpoint Presentation on Global Warming and Pollution.
Presentation will concentrate on threats to our planet and solutions to the problems.
Marks will be awarded for:
Content
Appropriate images and colours
Appropriate language – considering the age of the audience.
Appropriate music and sounds (see Music Compilation below)
Appropriate video – if required
Slide transitions and animations.
Appropriate slide timings – depending on the reading age of the audience.
Narration – using Audacity and Lame. Audacity enables speech to be recorded.
Lame converts speech to an MP3 format to be inserted
into Powerpoint.
Assessment.
Class will be given mark sheets and will award marks to their class members. This mark will be used in conjunction
with the teachers mark.
Music Compilation
Use Dance E Jay to use music samples to create “Mood” music for their PowerPoint presentations.
Convert and export files to MP3 format to enable them to be embedded into their presentations.
Desk Top Publishing
Year 7 will produce five pieces of work.
A newsletter about a topic of their choice.
A folded menu from a restaurant of their choice – English, Chinese, Indian, American, Italian, Dungeon, Alien!
A poster advertising the restaurant.
A basic Web Site on their restaurant, with a minimum of three hyperlinked pages.
Certificates of merit and seasonal cards.
Spreadsheet
Enter text and numbers.
Add
Subtract
Multiply
Divide
Use Sum function.
Copying and pasting.
Replicating formulae
Inserting Columns
Inserting Rows
Deleting Columns
Deleting Rows
Conditional Formating. Changes colours if Negative.
Changing Cell Format – Number to currency etc
Text Formatting. Text wrapping within a cell etc.
Creating Charts
Changing legends
Changing scale
Assessment by CLAIT style worksheets.
Year 8
In addition to the following, the class will be expected to learn touch typing using Sense Lang software.
Word Processing
Insert text
Change Font type and size
Change line spacing
Cut/copy and paste text
Find and replace.
Insert Clipart and pictures
Format pictures
Change margins – right, left, top, bottom.
Insert page numbers
Insert headers and footers
Insert a table
Enter and format text
Word count
Assessment by CLAIT style worksheet.
Database
Create a simple database using table view
Create simple queries (searches) using table view
Design and create forms from the main database.
Design and create forms from their queries.
Using OLE fields to embed images into their forms.
Use square-bracket queries to assist in searching records.
Assessment by CLAIT style worksheets
Programming
Using Alice 2.2 the class will write a programme to animate one of the scenarios in this program.
The class will write a short story and direct the camera which is able to be animated separately.
Year 9
In addition to the following, the class will be expected to learn touch typing.
Spreadsheets
Revise previous exercises which were basic commands using a spreadsheet.
Absolute cell addresses.
Using Functions
Using averages
Finding the minimum value in a range
Finding the maximum value in a range
Count
Vlookup tables
IF statements and nested IF statements.
Goal Seek
Pivot tables
Linking work sheets
Combo Control box
Spinner buttons.
Scroll bars
ICT in Media
Animation shop – creating a short animation sequence using models constructed in Art lessons.
Video capture and editing. Class will use Digital Blue cameras and software for practicing and Stop Pro Animation software for editing and final shooting.
Database
Relational Databases definition.
Purpose
Advantages and disadvantages over a flat file system.
Creating a relational database
Creating forms
Creating reports
Creating macros
Creating command buttons and assigning them to macros
Assessment by Video shop or cinema booking system.
Programming
Class will use Notepad to create Web pages in HTML.
Class will learn to Map pictures to enable hyperlinking to other pages.
Class will learn to hyperlink words to other pages.
Class will upload web pages to WWW.
Years 10 and 11
GCSE ICT
Students are required to complete work under the following headings:
You are required to complete work under the following headings which will include the following areas:-
ICT and Me
Data and Information
Analysis and finding data and information
Data Design
Communication
Sense of Audience and Purpose
Communicating
Communication Methods
Design and Modification of Communication Strategy
Technology
ICT and Today
System Design
Identify Appropriate Technologies Through Appropriate Research
Creation/Selection of Appropriate Content
Hardware and Software Selection
Implementation
Documentation
Evaluation and Testing
Critical Success Factors
Test Plans
Health and Safety
ICT in Business, Organisations and Society
Data Management
Data Handling Software
Managing Data/Keeping Data Safe and Secure
Monitoring, Measurement and Control Technology
Communication Technology
Online Communities
Sharing Data and Information
Communications Software
Technology
Hardware
Software
Networks
Information Knowledge Based Systems and Expert Systems
Troubleshooting
Health, Safety and the Law
Optional Areas Candidates must also study one of the optional areas from either:
Multi Media
Micro Environment
Nature of Assessment
The assessment will be conducted in accordance with the GCSE and GCE Code of Practice.
The Controlled Assessment will be externally set, internally marked and externally moderated. The Externally Assessed examination papers will be set and marked by the Awarding Body.
Controlled Assessment 60%
Externally Assessed Examination 40%
Further information regarding this course can
be found on the Examination Board website www.icaa.com
GCSE BUSINESS STUDIES
This is available to Year 10 girls and is two year course.
The subject content is organised into five teaching and learning units. The content of these is set out below.
Unit 1 - Business Activity
Business Activity in the UK
The Objectives of a Business
Organisation and Structure
Competition
Enterprise
Unit 2 - Marketing
Customers
Market Planning and Research
Markets
The Marketing Mix
Advertising
The Product Life Cycle
Unit 3 – Human Resources
Structure
Communication
Recruitment, selection and dismissal
Training
Motivating Workers
Industrial Relations
Unit 4 – Production and Exporting
Function of the Production Department
Location of a Business
Methods of Production
Growth of Firms
Business Activity outside the UK
Unit 5 – Finance, External Constraints and Ethics
Final Accounts
Cash Flow
Ratios
Sources and Methods of Finance
External Constraints on Business Activity
Business Ethics and Sustainability
Assessment
Terminal Examination (75%) (2 hours)
The terminal examination paper will be based on an externally set context. The examination will test a candidate's knowledge of the full range
of subject content of business studies related to the context. This context will be issued in July of the year before the terminal examination
as pre-reading in the form of a Research Brief. The Research Brief will also be reproduced in the terminal examination paper.
Controlled Assessment (25%)
The Controlled Assessment is 25% of the overall assessment. Candidates will have 12 hours to carry out the research for the Controlled
Assessment - this does not include the time spent interviewing people as part of their primary research.
The Controlled Assessment must be completed within 3 weeks of completing the research and candidates will have 3 hours to carry out the Controlled Task.
Candidates will use the research they have carried out to analyse the problem or situation, make and evaluate their decisions and present their
finding in any suitable format.
Candidates need to keep a bibliography of any books, materials, websites etc that they have used. The Controlled Assessment can be taken
during the first or second year of the course but will be submitted to the Awarding Body in the Summer Term of the final year by a specified date.
The Controlled Assessment is externally set, internally marked and externally moderated.
Further information about the course can be
found on the Examination Board website at www.icaag.com
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