Year 8 Digital Technology

In year 8, we look to engage our students with a variety of exciting topics. We pride ourselves on offering opportunities to develop students’ computational thinking, ability to apply and evaluate information technology to solve problems as well as gaining practical experience of writing computer programs. Students will use both visual and text-based programming languages, complete activities that model business practice and develop skills in animation and video editing. In addition students will follow courses on Computer Science, Games programming and Web Design using code.org.

We look to embed IT skills and routines and develop concepts of computing, computational thinking and problem solving by covering the following topics:

01:Introduction to the Network, Classroom and, Code of conduct.

02: IDEA.org Digital enterprise award.

03: Pupil Centred Profile

04: CODE.ORG introduction to Computer Science

05: Spreadsheet model – planning a party

06: Animation Skills in Wick editor

07: Database Design

08: Health Survey and GDPR

09: Review of term 1 and iDEA Review

10: Web Graphics - Research and Banners

11: Eisteddfod Video Editing (Cyber Security)

12: CODE.ORG Animation and games

13: Photo Collage T-shirt design

14: Mail merge letter - Template and merge

15: Spreadsheet data analysis - Health survey

16: Animation challenge in Wick editor

17: Review of term 2 and iDEA Review

18: CODE.ORG HTML web page design

19: Interactive story writing

20: Programming Games project Microbit

21: Multimedia Web Site using Google sites: Smart Cities

22: Band Lab - Audio creation.

23: Review of term 3 and iDEA Review