Regents Review Spring 2019

The Regents Review Spring 2019

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

ICT Computer Science – KS4 Year 11 students are preparing for their GSCE exam in May practising exam style questions, there will be an opportunity for a revision session in the Easter break and all students are encouraged to attend. They can also use their books and the resources on Google classroom for their own revision. Year 10 students have been practising programming skills in Python to improve their knowledge and have started their NEA.

iMedia – KS4 Year 10 students have been completing their first coursework as part of iMedia. During the Easter break there will be an opportunity for students to come back and make improvements before submitting it after Easter. We will then be ploughing through the next 2 units which will involve creating a website for a travel blogger and an interactive guide for tourists to Southampton. Year 9 have been developing their video and graphical editing skills and are now beginning their first coursework. The topic will be to produce a Sci-Fi themed book cover which demonstrates a range of photo editing skills. KS4 Groups Sessions take place on a Tuesday and Wednesday in room 21 and students who need to catch up or complete work should be attending them. IT – KS3 Year 7 groups have been exploring a range of safety issues and developing their web design skills to create a microsite on that topic offering advice to other students. They have also been developing their skills

with sequencing algorithms and creating flowcharts for different processes. Year 8 groups began the year refining their skills learnt from Year 7 where they started coding using the software Python. This is particularly helpful for students to develop their skills in coding and programming which is the introduction to Computer Science. After half term some classes then started a taster unit for iMedia to help with their options. iMedia involves creating digital graphics for a particular purpose, in this case producing a film poster for a fictional film “Epic Adventure”. They have to choose the plot before identifying assets to use and modifying them using photo editing techniques. After School Clubs We have introduced a coding club on Tuesday after school, this club has been introduced after several students expressed an interest in coding. We are looking at both Scratch and Python software.

Year 9 students have been studying programming

techniques, are learning to write in pseudo code and also using Python software as our choice of programming language.

Year 11 CiDA Students sat their exam in January and the results were good, now they are concentrating on completing their coursework. There will be an opportunity in the Easter break for students to improve their coursework as the deadline is the first week in May.

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