Year 7:

• Learn how to identify fake news and images.
• Understand how to keep yourself safe from phishing/vishing/smshing, social engineering scams and different forms of malware.
• Collaborate with one another respectfully online.
• Explore the history of computers and understand how they work.
• “Speak” to a computer using binary.
• Create quizzes using spreadsheets.
• Create animations and a video game using Scratch.
• Create pop art using vector-based drawing software.

Year 8:

• Learn the science of encoding and decoding messages using cryptography.
• Understand how computers use binary to represent images and text on a computer.
• Create advanced animations and games in Scratch.
• Create drawings using Python and develop an Artificial Intelligence program.
• Create a “choose your own adventure” story using programming constructs.
• Create your own webpage using HTML and identify cybersecurity threats.

Year 8 participate in the NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition held nationally every November. This is an online competition where teams complete a series of networking, logic and coding, cybersecurity and cryptography challenges.

Year 9:

• Understand how to develop efficient programs to solve problems.
• Develop an Artificial Intelligence program using Python.
• Understand the ethical issues behind Artificial Intelligence, driverless cars and algorithms.
• Ethical, cultural, legal and environmental concerns – have computers made the world better or worse?
• Understand what a computer network is, identify possible threats and how to prevent them.
• Explore how a computer performs calculations and Boolean logic, and perform hexadecimal conversions.