Faculty Head: Mr D Clark

ICT at Hardenhuish School

Facilities

Every classroom in the school is equipped with a digital projector and an interactive whiteboard

There are six networked computer rooms, each with laser printers. In addition there are satellite centres in D&T, Science and Languages (2) and wireless laptops in Humanities and English.

There is also a variety of other interactive technology such as voting kits and sketchpads throughout the school.

Pupils all have their own e-mail account and user space, both of which can be accessed from outside school.

The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a resource which is increasing in use. All the ICT courses are taught and assessed through the VLE, and many other departments are now making use of it.

Key Stage 3

ICT is taught as a discrete subject (one period per week in years 7, 8 and 9). Students follow a scheme of work matched to the National Curriculum and incorporating the latest developments of the ICT strategy.

There are also eight cross curricular projects in Key Stage 3 to enrich the learning in other subjects and reinforce their understanding in ICT

Assessment is roughly once per term, and pupils will be given a National Curriculum level and feedback about how to improve. At the end of year 9, the online SAT test is taken and this is used by teachers to inform them when making their overall judgement about a pupils level.

There is an option in year 9 to study Computing and Multimedia. This is two periods per week in addition to the mandatory period. The learning is based around programming and multimedia and half way through the year, real projects are undertaken such as websites and animations.

Key Stage 4

ICT is a core subject at Key Stage 4. Currently Year 10’s and 11’s are following Certificate in Digital Applications (CiDA)

From September 2007, year 10 will have a choice of CiDA, or the OCR National certificate. The latter will be tailored to pupils wishing to follow a more technical course.

The Sixth Form

In the sixth form we offer the AQA A-level Computing and Applied A-level ICT. In the Computing course, fundamentals of programming underpin the whole course and are taught from day one. Pascal, Assembler, Visual Basic and PHP are taught.

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