The computing department at Rossington All Saints Academy strive to give all pupils the opportunity to learn and develop their knowledge, understanding and skills in computing and digital literacy, thereby, providing pupils with the necessary expertise to progress up to and beyond their potential.   This provides pupils with a broad platform to launch into their future careers be it in a computational field, an area of digital creativity or simply to support them in their day to lives at home and at work, thereby preparing RASA pupils for life in modern day Britain.  

Good quality IT skills enable students to engage positively within the modern work place, while Computer Science skills enable students to take an active part in the design, development and creation of new technologies to be used in the world in which they live.

We provide a broad and balanced range of skills and experiences at KS3 that both reflect the National Curriculum and prepares students for their option choice that they then further develop as students enter KS4.

At KS4 pupils can choose to study Computer Science at GCSE where they will go on to develop key problem solving skills: useful in a range of disciplines that including coding and software development. 

The department draws on and extends understanding from a range of other subjects outside of computing including Design and Technology, Art and Design, Maths, Science and PHSE and embed clear high quality literacy and numeracy skills through project development, problem solving and evaluation skills.

Rossington All Saints Academy values in Computing

Community: Encouraging pupils to take pride in their work/outcomes.  Pupils to critique in a responsible way and to respect the opinions of others whilst feeding back.  Being an ambassador for online safety within the wider community.

Aspirations:  Foster a desire to maximize potential striving for excellence in all aspects of work and across all key stages.  

Resilience: Develop a resistance to giving up and making do nurturing a desire to achieve optimum goals.

Excellence: Pupils encouraged to be empathetic listeners and confident orators of the subject with a view to achieving outstanding outcomes.  

The year 7 curriculum is designed to cover the following areas

Computer Use and Online Safety

Digital Media

Computer Science

Ensure students are safe users of computers in terms of online and e-safety and in their general use of IT

Introduce file management skills that they can use for all subjects

Introduce key numeracy topics

Curriculum Coverage at KS4

Qualification nameExam boardAssessment detailsLink to specification
Computer Science (9-1) – J276OCRComputer Systems 1hr 30mins 50%
Computational Thinking 1hr 30mins 50%
https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/computer-science-j277-from-2020/

Possible pathways

Our Computer Science course follows the National Curriculum for the subject of Computing. After completing the course pupils will have the skills required to further study Computer Science at A level or work in a Computing orientated apprenticeship.  The course leads into many areas of Computing, problem solving, games development and programming.

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