This SoW has been developed to fit in with the current National Curriculum for Computer Science, as well as preparing students to study Computer Science at GCSE and beyond. It is designed to be taught in 1 hour of lessons a week, throughout years 7-9, but many topics can be readily adapted and indeed, should be! Update Sept 2021: Google have recently applied a security update, which means the previously public links no longer work. I have updated them in this document, but if you are using an older version of the PDF, these may no longer work. Please can you use the new links, and let me know if you have any issues accessing the resources. Please note: As I am no longer teaching, this resource is not being updated or maintained, and some links may no longer be available. If anyone would like to take on the maintenance and update of these, please do let me know, as I just don’t have the time otherwise. Some units of work included in this have been tested, and developed with students, however, most remain untested, and may need adapting when in front of a class. This SoW has been designed to provide a structured course, which should be developed further within your department. An outline of the whole 3 years can be found here. The purpose of this document is to walk through the structure of the course for the 3 years, and provide links to the appropriate documents where available. An online version can be found here.

A single page boolean logic diagram puzzle involving Logic Gates. Students need to work out the solution to a problem by working backwards through a logic diagram. This can be used as a starter or plenary to check for thorough understanding of logic gates and boolean logic operators. There is only one unique solution which is also provided.

AQA GCSE Computer Science (9-1) resource for practising converting between number bases (binary, decimal and hexadecimal) as well as different units of measurement. All include an answer sheet, and new questions can be easily generated at the click of a button. (Hopefully!) useful revision resource.

A workbook covering the whole of the AQA GCSE Computer Science course. Each section has a combination of theory and questions. In class we use it to help students struture their notes and all students are provided with the workbook at the start of the year. Depending on your version of Word, occasionally the formatting may be slightly off-kilter with some information jumping between pages. So it is worth double checking before it goes to print - I learnt that the hard way!

Activity showing students how a sound wave could be sampled using an Excel workbook. An 'analogue' sound wave is displayed on a graph, and students can input their own 'samples' which can be used to digitally represent the wave. Two different sample rates are used which allows the demonstration of how sample rates can affect sound quality. The student workbook, and a worked example are included.

Collection of SQL exam questions from past AQA papers with the markschemes included.

This is a short activity for students to practice RLE with bitmap images. It has space for them to create a bitmap with 4 colours, they then compress it using RLE, and give the compressed data to a partner to decompress.