ICT

Key Stage 3

Throughout Year 7, 8 and 9 students will complete a mix of ICT, Computer Science and Creative I media units which will provide them with a good understanding of 3 separate subjects alongside learning and developing new skills and understanding alongside setting students up for continuing to study these subject in future studies.

In ICT students will complete units including basic office skills, E-Safety, Computing fundamentals, Video Editing, Digital Graphics, Interactive products, Website development and Photoshop alongside 2 programming languages of Python and Scratch.

Key Stage 4

I Media

This course is a Cambridge National in Creative I Media which equips students with the wide range of knowledge and skills needed to work in the creative digital media sector. They start at pre-production and develop their skills through practical assignments as they create final multimedia products. This is a practical subject which involves planning, creating, and reviewing multimedia products.

The 3 units of study will include:

R081: Pre-production skills
Students are introduced to a range of essential pre-production techniques used in the creative and digital media, including client brief, time frames, deadlines and preparation techniques

R082: Creating digital graphics
Building on the skills and understanding that they have developed in the previous unit, students explore where and why digital graphics are used and the techniques that are involved in their creation. They apply their skills and knowledge in creating digital graphics against a specific brief.

R087: Creating interactive multimedia products
Students develop their knowledge and understanding of about where and why different interactive multimedia products are used and what features are needed for a given purpose. They learn how to interpret a client brief, and how to use time frames, deadlines and preparation techniques as part of the planning and creation process.

Key Stage 5

ICT - Cambridge Technical- (New for 2022)

Students will develop their understanding of IT and how it is used within different environments and the benefits of using IT systems.

The course is structured the same for both AS Level and A2 Level with 60% exam and 40% coursework.

In the AS Level the students will develop their understanding of a number of different topics including IT use in Healthcare, Education, Business and Networks. The students will produce course work based on a real life client situation producing DTP, mail merges and presentations for their clients.

In the A2 Level students will study in detail a number of topics including System Life Cycle, Networks and Working with IT. For the course work students will again work with a real life client producing a working database for the business showing the design, production and testing of the system.

Media

The A Level Media Studies specification is based on the theoretical framework for analysing and creating media, which provides learners with the tools to develop a critical understanding and appreciation of the media. The framework consists of four inter-related areas:

• Media Language: how the media through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicate meanings;
• Representation: how the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups;
• Media Industries: how the media industries' processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms;
• Audiences: how media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them, and how members of audiences become producers themselves.