Year 8 students are re-introduced to the school systems in addition to E-Safety with an emphasis on social networking. Moving on to the Internet and Networks, students begin to understand how the internet works and how it differs from the World Wide Web (WWW). There is an investigation into the use of binary to communicate with a computer, including the presentation of images and how sound is played.
Students get the opportunity to create a Webpage, with simple understanding of HTML and CSS, learning how to adapt a page using TAGs and CAGs. The year finishes with the students creating a Digital Presentation on a given subject using PowerPoint.
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Autumn |
E-Saftey, Using computers and the internet, My Digital World |
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Internet and Networks |
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Spring |
How data is represented in computers: Binary
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HTML – CSS Web Page development |
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Summer |
Hardware and Software
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Digital presentation
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