ICT & iMedia Curriculum Overview

ICT KS3 Curriculum Topics

	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 7	Introductory Unit - Passwords, emails, searching, copyright and plagiarism, computer systems and hardware.	E Safety - Cyberbullying, digital footprint, social media, netiquette and reporting concerns.	Spreadsheets - Basic functions and formulas, formatting and representing data.	Cryptology and Flowol. Sequence and shapes.	Block based programming on Scratch.	Text based programming on Python.
Year 8	HTML - input, output and processing.	Web Authoring in Dreamweaver.	Text based programming - Python. Logic, binary and boolean.	Animation in Fireworks.	Spreadsheets - Advanced functions and formulas, formatting and representing data.	Database flat files - interrogation, forms, multiple criteria queries, data types and mail merge.
Year 9	Photo editing in Photoshop.	Coding and data representation.	Database - relational	Text based programming - Python. Searching and sorting.	Integrated project planning. Including mind maps, gantt charts, system life cycles.	Integrated project practical.

iMedia KS4 Curriculum Topics

	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 10	R097: Features and conventions of interactive digital media. Resources required to create interactive digital media products. Pre-production and planning documentation and techniques for interactive digital media	R097: Technical skills to create and/or edit and manage assets for use within interactive digital media products. Technical skills to create interactive digital media. Techniques to save and export/publish interactive digital media. Techniques to test/check and review interactive digital media.	R097: NEA Assessment	R094: Purpose, elements and design of visual identity. Techniques to plan visual identity and digital graphics. Properties and use of assets.	R094: Tools and techniques to create visual identity and digital graphics. Technical skills to source, create and prepare assets for use within digital graphics	R094: NEA Assessment (Working on and submit for moderation) R097: TA1 Introduction (with R093 key content embedded)
Year 11	R097 or R094: NEA Assessment	R093: Sectors and products in the media industry. Job Roles in the media industry. Factors influencing product design. Client requirements. Audience demographics and segmentation. Research methods. Media codes.	R093: Pre-production planning inlduing documents used to design and plan media products. Legal issues to include IP, copyright, regulation, certification and classification. Health and safety.	R093: Distribution platforms and media to reach audiences. Properties and formats of media files.	R093 Final examination	N/A