This is the home page for the AMS computing curriculum. This is an open source web page and you are able to contribute via GitHub.com If you have any questions please email me.
Department personalities
- Mr B Jones, Head of Department
- Mrs K Jeyakumaran
- Mrs C Maguire
The Departmental Handbook is also published here
Curriculum
Live links indicate a unit under planning, or active unit
Year 7
40 Hours
in 2013/4 this syllabus will be delivered to year 8 students
In 2014/5 this syllabus will be delivered to students in years 7 & 8
From 2015/6 this syllabus will be delivered to year 7 only.
- Computing at Ash Manor - Autum 1
- I Google Myself - Autum 1
- Hardware - Autum 2
- Presenting - Spring 1
- Word processing - Spring 2
- Spreadsheets - summer 1
- Control - summer 2
Year 8
40 Hours
for 2014/5 year 8 will follow the year 7 Scheme of work. This will change in the year 2015/6
- Graphics - Autum 1
- Animation - Autum 2
- Databases - Spring 1
- Introduction to Python - Spring 2
- Web Design 1 - Using HTML - Summer 1
- Web Design 2 - Using CSS - Summer 2
Year 9
40 Hours, in a 8 week block
The year 9 curriculum will start in 2015/6. In 2014/5 Year 9s will follow the year 8 syllabus
Units
- Codes and Cyphers
- Test Driven Software Development
Year 10 / 11
These units are delivered by the Mathematics department
- Fractions - Unit 3 (ICT U1)
- Collecting Data - Unit 6 (ICT U2)
- Perimeter and Area - Unit 12 (ICT U3)
- Statistics (ICT U4)
- Linear Equations (ICT U5)