S2 ICT

In S2 they come to the department for one period per week.  The course comprises both  Digital Literacy and Computing Science.  It allows the learners to develop and consolidate their general ICT skills to enable them to make full use of the school's ICT provision across the wider curriculum.  It also introduces them to programming and web design.

Units covered:

• On-line Safety

• Programming with BBC micro:bit

• Programming with Kitronik Arcade

• Web page creation using HTML and CSS

• Careers in computing

Links to software used.

Some are online and learners register with their school email or Microsoft account:

BBC Micro:bit - https://makecode.microbit.org/#

Arcade - https://arcade.makecode.com/

Web Design  - We use a text editor to create code and a web browser to view results.  A good free text editor is Notepad++  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/