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Chipping Sodbury School
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Chipping Sodbury
Bristol
BS37 6EW

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All students in Chipping Sodbury School are given specialist ICT lessons in Key Stage 3.  They are taught the skills and knowledge to make informed judgments about the use of ICT and acquire a range of technical skills.  They have a one hour ICT lesson per cycle in Year 7 and one hour per week in Years Eight and Nine. At Key Stage 4 students can opt for a traditional GCSE in ICT or a vocational iMedia course.


 

Throughout Key Stages 3 and 4 students apply their ICT skills and knowledge in other subject areas, using ICT as an aid to their learning. A good example is the Design and Technology department who have specific objectives relating to the delivery of the control elements of the ICT curriculum through specialist knowledge and equipment in that subject area.


 KS3

At this level the students are developing their skills in:

  • Word Processing

  • Presentation

  • Desktop Publishing

  • Spreadsheets

  • Internet

  • Databases

  • Web-site design

  • Research

KS4

From September 2006, students’ Level 2 choices include the ICT GCSE (OCR Syllabus A) Full Course and the vocational iMedia Certificate (GCSE level). The GCSE has a 40% theory and a 60% coursework element, and the iMedia is 100% coursework. There are also Level 1 ASDAN and ICAA skills certificates on offer to students where appropriate. In addition Key Stage 4 students can extend their ICT skills and qualifications by undertaking the ECDL (European Computer Driving License) course and/or following the Short Course in GCSE ICT. Both of these courses run after school and are available to students who have not opted for KS4 ICT.

Sixth Form

 In the Sixth Form, students are able to undertake the Advanced GCE in ICT.  This course can be taken as a three-unit AS (Advanced Subsidiary) or a six-module A2 course run over the two years.  In addition, students study for the ICT Key Skills qualification. A vocational level 2 qualification is also available, which is worth 4 GCSE’s, the ICT GNVQ Intermediate.

Hardware

Chipping Sodbury School has an extensive range of computer hardware available to the students, allowing access to one machine per student during lessons, which take place in one of the five networked ICT suites on the site, all of which have data projectors and Internet connections.  The school’s Broadband connection allows for simultaneous high-speed access to the Internet.  In addition to the ICT suites, there is also ICT access in the library for student research purposes.

Software

All of the computers in the ICT suites on the Chipping Sodbury network are running Windows XP.  Under Windows, there is a variety of software available.  The main items of software used are:

  • Word 2003 (Microsoft)

  • Excel 2003 (Microsoft)

  • Publisher 2003 (Microsoft)

  • Access 2003 (Microsoft)

  • PowerPoint 2003 (Microsoft)

  • Macromedia Studio 8

  • Internet Explorer

  • Flowol (Data Harvest)