S2 Computing

During this topic, pupils will have a chance to revisit skills learnt from the S1 ICT, and also learn a little about Publisher.  This unit is designed around planning of an annual Busy Bee Charity Summer Ball.  Pupils will be using:

• Publisher

• Word

• PowerPoint

• Access (Database)

• Excel (Spreadsheet)

Progress Check

Progress checks will be ongoing by submitting completed task for teacher review.

Some pupils may have experienced Scratch when in Primary school.  Pupils will be learning the basics of coding used to make computer programs.  This topic will cover:

• Movement (along axes, point and move)

• Animating sprites 

• Using a range of sensing options

• Using variables

Pupils will then finish off this unit of work by planning, and creating, a game of their own.  To do this, they will utilise all the skills developed.

Progress Check

To check understanding, pupils will have several progress checks throughout this unit.  Progress checks are designed to show where pupils are in their learning, and what they need to revise in order to improve understanding.

Over a series of lesson developed by Google and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, pupils will be introduced to the world of AI.  Pupils will learn about:

• What is AI - 'data-driven' and 'rules-based' approaches 

• How computers learn - approaches to machine learning (ML) and classification of data

• Bias - accuracy of ML model, learning, the need for training and test data, how bias can influence predictions generated by ML model

• Decision trees - how decision trees are used to build a classification ML model, how training data changes a ML model, why ML is used to create decisions trees 

• Solving problems - stages of the AI project lifecycle, use ML tool to import data and train model, test and examine the accuracy of ML model

• Model cards - evaluate a ML model, produce a model card to explain ML model

Progress Check

To check understanding, pupils will have several progress checks throughout this unit.  Progress checks are designed to show where pupils are in their learning, and what they need to revise in order to improve understanding.