Year 8 Curriculum Intent: Computing consists of three stands: Computational Thinking, Computer Science and Digital Literacy.

Digital Literacy Within Digital Literacy, we seek to enable students to become confident, secure, and safe users of Information Technologies, whether these
are smart phones, laptops / personal computers, or tablets. Students will discover how to organise their work safely and learn how to
effectively the Microsoft Office 360 suite of programs, which the school provides for them to use both in school and at home. Students also
learn how to use ICT safely and legally through e-safety and finally, we will look at the impact the use of computers have on the ethical,
moral and environment lives of all of us, and the legislation which seeks to mitigate some of those issues.

Digital Literacy Term 1: Term 2: Term 3

Year 8:
How to use PowerPoint Effectively Consequences of using computers How to use Word Effectively:
Use of: • e-waste • Headers
• images • other environmental issues (e.g., power • Footers
• templates / slide master consumption) • Table of Contents
• animations • ethical issues (replacing humans) • Spell checking
• transitions • impact of copyright / piracy • Grammar checking
Web site design: • privacy – use of “Big data” Image Processing – Photoshop
Topic Titles (in
Legal Issues:
order of delivery) • Layout • Advantages / Disadvantages of using
• Data Protection Act
• Web page components (e.g., • Moral / Ethical uses of
• Computer Misuse Act
navigation bar, Search bar, hyperlinks Basic Tools
• Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
• Planning tools • Blur
• Repair
• Clone stamp
• Selection
Be able to create an effective presentation That using computers and other devices has Be able to produce an effective word-processed
using PowerPoint. consequences document.
Range of skills and their use: • Legal Range of skills and their use
• inserting images • moral • Images
• providing references / citations for • environmental • Floating text
quotes Be able to describe consequences given a specific • Tables
• what breaching copyright means scenario • Formatting
Key knowledge / • how to search for creative commons Be able to justify why an action is ethically / morally • Underline
Retrieval topics images acceptable or not Explain what is meant by image processing
Web Design. Be able to effectively create and Know what “Big data” is and explain how it is used What the possible consequences are of
use: Know the purpose of these laws: inappropriate use.
• Mood boards • Data Protection Act (1998) Range of skills and their use
• visualisation diagrams • Computer Misuse Act (1990)
• mind maps • Copyright, Design and Patents Act (1998).
What is a house style?
Identify web page components
 Be able to justify / criticise the layout of web
pages

What is the purpose of a presentation? Environmental consequences of using computers: Differences between a word-processed document
Why do we use PowerPoint for this? • e-waste and a presentation
What makes PowerPoint most suitable? • pollution Why create a word processed document?
Skills: • rare metals Skills:
• inserting images • mining • Images
• changing fonts / styles • power consumption (e.g., Meta, Bitcoin) • Floating text
• creating a template / slide master Moral consequences of using computers • Tables
• Inserting footers • replacing humans • Formatting
• animations • artificial intelligence • Underline
• transitions • autonomous cars / weapons • Headers
Why might some transitions / animations be Privacy • Footers
Understanding / inappropriate for a specific presentation • how data is being used • Table of Contents
Sequence of • who collects and uses data • Spell checking
delivery What is a web page? • what is Big-data • Grammar checking
What is a web site? • advantages and disadvantages Image Processing
Compare well known web pages Legal issues Advantages and disadvantages of using
• why do they look the way they do? • purpose of each of the laws Ethical and moral concerns of using image
• investigate colour schemes • when do they apply processing software
• similarity / consistency between pages • what exceptions are there? Skills:
on the same site. Why is this?
• Blur
•
• Repair
• Clone stamp
• Selection

Homework Homework Homework

Assessments
Completed Presentation / Design Cat 2 Completed Word Document