Computing & Business

Curriculum Intent

Our curriculum aims for every student to become a wise, astute, discerning consumer of IT products in a world increasingly permeated by the pressures of social media. We offer students the opportunity to acquire programming and Business Intelligence skills (which are highly transferrable and increasingly lucrative) to give them opportunities they have may not have previously considered and give them ambitions they may have considered beyond their horizons. We cover all elements of the Program of Study and are introducing a second programming language JavaScript to give the students more scope in the employment sector. We have deliberately chosen a language which though traditionally used for front end scripting can be used server side (back end) to increase the scope of projects they can build. One of the schools aims is Resilience and the habits underpinning this are well embedded with the students. This is clearly evident when students are coding or undertaking external challenges such as Bebras. JavaScript being a web-orientated language dovetails neatly with HTML which students and teachers are well versed in. It doesn't require software installation and gives students the opportunity to code interactive websites.