Senior Computing

Kings Ely senior

Academic

Computing

We have placed students on computing based summer internships with renowned companies. 

 

If you are interested in learning about how to make computers do what you want and would like to know what actually happens inside the machine, then this is the course for you.

In Year 9, we follow the themes of Digital Creativity and Literacy, Digital Coding and Digital Citizenship.

Pupils develop knowledge and understanding of website development, spreadsheets, graph drawing and advanced word processing, among a range of Office applications. 

This subject aims to equip students with computational thinking skills for A level courses or the workplace.

Not only will you learn to code, you will also learn about what makes computers work and key problem solving skills that can applied across a variety of different situations that you will face in life.

Assessment

 

Paper 1: Computational thinking and problem solving

Written Exam: 2 hours 90 marks (50%)

Computational thinking, code tracing, problem solving, programming concepts including the design of effective algorithms and the designing, writing, testing and refining of code from the following sections:

Fundamentals of algorithms
Programming


Paper 2:Written assessment

Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes 90 marks (50%)

How different data types are represented on a computer. Computer networks and security, ethical, legal and environmental impact on society.

Theoretical knowledge from the following sections:

  • Fundamentals of computer networks
  • Fundamentals of cyber security
  • Relational databases and structured query language (SQL)
  • Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy

Computer Science GCSE Exam Specification

 

Meet the teacher

Marc Hawes 

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