Internet safety or online safety or cyber safety or E-Safety is trying to be safe on the internet and is the act of maximizing a user's awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime. 

This unit of work teaches an introduction to programming using the Scratch programming language. Students will be introduced to programming inputs, variable storage, outputs, sequencing and selection.

This unit teaches the basics of HTML enabling students to create a mini website. Students learn how to add text, images and hyperlinks, plus formatting techniques including fonts, text size and alignment.

Binary Bits and Bobs introduces students to the binary number system, converting between binary and denary and simple binary addition. Students will also be taught how (and why) characters, images and sound are represented by the binary system. 

This unit introduces students to the micro: bit device and teaches them how to program a variety of applications including a digital dice, digital compass and games console (pong). The unit uses both the ‘blocks’ and ‘python’ programming language.

In this unit of work, students will learn how to use the internet safely and effectively. They will learn about copyright law, search engines (including the use of Boolean logic for effective searching) and they will also learn about the dangers of the internet and ways to combat these dangers.

Students learn how to create some simple gaming scripts including key controlled movement, gravity, object collisions and scoring systems in order to make their very own platform games. 

In this unit, students will be introduced to programming in the Python programming language. They will learn how to print messages to the screen, ask the user to input data and stores this data in variables. They will also understand how computers make decisions and consequently learn how to program IF statements. 

Students will be reminded of some basic HTML syntax (as covered in the year 7 unit) and will be introduced to CSS so that they can understand how to better present their webpages. They will learn how to add gradient backgrounds, add page borders, curve images and reorganise content on the page with the help of DIV tags. 

In this unit, students will create a platform shooter game. They will learn how to implement gravity in their games as well as code a simple shooter (along with levels and other gaming features). 

In this unit, students will create a platform shooter game. They will learn how to implement gravity in their games as well as code a simple shooter (along with levels and other gaming features). 

Students will be reminded of some basic HTML syntax (as covered in the year 7 unit) and will be introduced to CSS so that they can understand how to better present their webpages. They will learn how to add gradient backgrounds, add page borders, curve images and reorganise content on the page with the help of DIV tags. 

Computer Networks is currently a short unit of work consisting of only 2 lessons. Students will be introduced to Local Area Networks (LANS), the hardware of a local network, the workings of the Internet, how the WWW and Internet differ and how data travels around a network (e.g. Data Packets). 

Continuing on from the year 8 unit of work which introduced the Python programming language, students will reinforce their understanding of inputs, outputs, variables and selection through the means of a variety of programming challenges. Students will also be taught the programming structure of iteration. They will learn how FOR and WHILE loops work and will code these structures in a range of programs.