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/