ICT Year 10/11

The following courses are offered

CEA/ICAA GCSE IN ICT

This course is run in conjunction with CEA and ICAA. Students focus on how ICT can be used to help run a Leisure Centre.

Coursework 40%                     Portfolio of work submitted from applications of WP, DTP, Multimedia, Dataprocessing,Modelling, Control, Internet and E-mail
Timed Practical Task (20%)     5 hour practical session producing a specific ICT solution from a given brief from an organisation. This takes place in normal lesson time
Key Skills Exam (20%)            Multiple Choice Exam
Terminal exam (20%)              Final written paper

Tasks and training material can all be found on the Palatine Portal, available only to Palatime students. You will need to navigate to Subjects-ICT-Leisure Centre

OCR NATIONAL LEVEL 2 IN ICT

This course is run in conjunction with OCR and Thomas Telford School. It is made up of a number of units – some 60 hour, some 30 hour. A GCSE equivalent qualification is obtained by successfully completing a combined 90 hour course of study.

Students follow a course made up of a selection of these units:

Unit 1               60 Hours          Skills in Business (compulsory)
Unit 2               60 hours           Web page Creation
Unit 3               60 Hours          Digital Imaging
Unit 20             30 Hours          Creating Animations
Unit 21             30 Hours          Creating computer graphics
Unit 23             30 hours           Creating Video

Students will follow a number of learning assignments, which will take under half the allotted time. The rest of the unit is taken up with the production which is marked to a given criteria.

The examination is based solely on the Portfolio. There is no final examination.

Learning Resources

PortfolioTasks and training material can all be found by following the links opposite but are only available to Palatine Students when following this course.

Industrial Links

These are used to support examination courses and recent visits include Blackpool Winter Gardens, Pleasure Beach and Blackurn Rovers. The images on this pages are from a recent visit to Blackburn Rovers to study the ICT systems they use.