What will l learn in Year 9 Computing

In year 9 you develop a deeper within the key areas of Computer Science, Information Technology and Digital Literacy. We will focus on the following topics:

• Cyber Security:
  • Understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly, and securely, including protecting your online identity and privacy
  • Recognise inappropriate content, contact, and conduct, and know how to report concerns
• Data science:
  • Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users
• Introduction to Python programming:
  • understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
  • analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
  • use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems
  • understand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking; use logical reasoning to compare the utility of alternative algorithms for the same problem
  • understand how instructions are stored and executed within a computer system
  • design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems

Key Stage 4

Creative iMedia

Exam Board: OCR

Course Title: Cambridge National Certificate Level 1/2 in Creative iMedia

Course Code: J817

Exam board information: https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/cambridge-nationals/creative-imedia-level-1-2-award-certificate-j807-j817/

What will I learn on this course

On this course you will learn about the purpose and content, how to plan for, how to produce and how to review the following areas of media:

• Pre-production skills
  • Creating a range of design documents such as mood boards, mindmaps, visualisation diagrams and storyboards
  • Analyse a script
  • The properties and limitations of file formats for still images
  • The properties and limitations of file formats for audio
  • The properties and limitations of file formats for moving images
  • Suitable naming conventions
• Creating digital graphics
  • Source and create assets identified for use in a digital graphic
  • Ensure the technical compatibility of assets with the final graphic (e.g. pixel dimensions, dpi resolution)
  • Create a digital graphic using a range of tools and techniques within the image editing software application
  • Save a digital graphic in a format appropriate to the software being used
  • Export the digital graphic using appropriate formats and properties
  • How to use version control when creating a digital graphic.
• Creating interactive multimedia products
  • source assets to be used in an interactive multimedia product
  • Create and re-purpose assets
  • Store assets to be used in an interactive multimedia product
  • Create an interactive multimedia product structure
  • Set up interaction and playback controls
  • Save an interactive multimedia product in a format appropriate to the software being used
  • Export the interactive multimedia product in a file format appropriate to client requirements
  • How to use version control when creating interactive multimedia products
• Creating a multipage website
  • Create suitable folder structures to organise and save web pages and asset files using appropriate naming conventions
  • Source and import assets
  • Create a suitable master page as a template for a multipage website
  • Use a range of tools and techniques in web authoring software to create a multipage website
  • Insert assets into web pages to create planned layouts
  • Create a navigation system
  • Save a multipage website in a format appropriate to the software being used
  • Publish a multipage website to a location appropriate to client requirements
  • How to use version control when creating multipage websites