Curriculum – BTEC ICT

Vision

The curriculum is designed to allow students to have access to transferable skills through Information Technology. The curriculum should be engaging and practical, it should encourage creativity and develop problem solving skills through a variety of tasks. As active, aware and informed participants in the digital world. We also aim for the students to leave The Radclyffe School as digital citizens with the skill set to keep their knowledge up to date in the ever changing digital technology. Students should be able to go online and stay safe and understand what they need to do if they do not feel safe while on social media or online gaming.

Year 10 Curriculum Intent

At the end of year 10 students will be able to identify different user interfaces and their features and then apply their knowledge to evaluate products already on the market for their accessibility and design. Students will then go onto designing their own prototype user interface for stadium ensuring they cover the whole design and evaluation process.
Students will also be able to explain why spreadsheets are used for data modelling.
They will carry out some modelling exercises on given data and analyse their results

Year 10 Topics

• Component 1 LA A
• Component 1 LA B
• Component 1 LA C
• Component 2 LA A
• Component 2 LA B

Year 11 Curriculum Intent

By the end of year 11 students will be able to explain and identify how technology affects modern working practices the impact of collaboration technology on the workplace.  They will also be able to Identify why systems are attacked and describe methods of keeping systems safe.

Students will have an understanding of up to date policies and legislation that relate to the use of computer systems and how they protect individuals and organisations.

Year 11 Topics

• Component 2 LA B
• Component 2 LA C
• Component 3 LA A
• Component 3 LA B
• Component 3 LA C
• Component 3 LA D
• Exam Technique
• Revision and Exam Technique

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