Preparing students for a digital world

At Everest Community Academy, Computing Science and Information Technology deliver much needed vital skills for the fast evolving digital society. All students have the right to deep learning experiences across the key aspects of Computing.

We encourage students to be confident and responsible users of new technologies and understand how to be safe while using them. There are cross curricular links with Maths, Science, Design Technology and algorithmic thinking.  This provides students with insight into both natural and artificial systems which improves their problem solving, design, and creativity skills. They developed their ideas through, information technology. This leads students to be ready for the workplace to successfully joining the digital world.

Whilst teaching the computing curriculum we try to use other curriculum area contents to enrich our tasks for example looking at healthy eating and using this as topic to base their interface around. Cross-curricular links with maths, science, design technology and algorithmic thinking provide students with insight into both natural and artificial systems which improves their problem solving, design, and creativity skills. They develop their ideas through information technology.

We encourage students to be confident and responsible users of new technologies and understand how to be safe while using them. Students study units such as cyber security and engage in initiatives like safer internet day to help embed these ideas further. At Everest Community Academy, Computing Science and Information Technology deliver much needed vital skills for the fast-evolving digital society. All students have the right to deep learning experiences across the key aspects of Computing. 

At Key Stage Four, students can choose to study either Computer Science or Digital IT.

IT and Computer Science Curriculum Sequence

Digital IT Curriculum Sequence