If like me you feel that the new computer science national curriculum needs a bit more of a common sense approach, have a look at the standards towers that we now use across our curriculum. These dovetail into the new 9-1 KS4 Qualifications and provide a joined up thinking approach to the new changes. These pupil friendly targets help students to know what they need to do in order to reach the next grade. These have been printed out as large displays within all of our classrooms and laminated. These also fit in nicely with report statements which can be purchased separately and link to the standards.

This resource is a checklist which links to 65 video guides based around Microsoft Powerpoint. The guides demonstrate the necessary skills required to pass this unit of the ECDL course. This is the ECDL For Schools Qualification which counts on league tables for 2017. This has been tried and tested on over 4000 students from many schools up and down the country with excellent success rates (mainly A* grades). If you would like a preview of one of the videos go to this website address. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRyTTEIlZENYnpLbWlEdjRCUkk/view

This resource is a checklist which links to 65 video guides based around Microsoft Excel. The guides demonstrate the necessary skills required to pass this unit of the ECDL course. This is the ECDL For Schools Qualification which counts on league tables for 2017. This has been tried and tested on over 4000 students from many schools up and down the country with excellent success rates (mainly A* grades). If you would like a preview of one of the videos go to this website address. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRyTTEIlZENQ2pNYjNSQ2hDRzQ/view

This resource is a checklist which links to 65 video guides based around Microsoft Word. The guides demonstrate the necessary skills required to pass this unit of the ECDL course. This is the ECDL For Schools Qualification which counts on league tables for 2017. This has been tried and tested on over 4000 students from many schools up and down the country with excellent success rates (mainly A* grades). If you would like a preview of one of the videos go to this website address. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzRyTTEIlZENMHpYbS05aDVmYXM

This resource is the 6th of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a pac man game. They will learn about paging and comparisons in order to allow game complexity and progression. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu pac man game with code - Pac Man game without code to give students to allow them to jump straight to the coding

This resource is the 5th of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a space invaders game. They will learn about creatables, pathing and paging to allow game complexity and progression. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu space invaders game with code - Space invaders game without code to give students to allow them to jump straight to the coding

This resource is the 4th of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a super mario game. They will learn about creatables to give the illusion of progressing through levels. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu super mario world with code - Demo world to give students to allow them to jump straight to the coding

This resource is the third of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a football match and allow 2 players to play against each other. In this lesson students learn about creatables. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu football game with code - Football pitch file to give students to allow them to jump straight to the coding

This resource is the second of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to compete with other racers to the finish line. The race track is given to the students beforehand so that only the coding is focused upon. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu race track with code - Student version with race track and no code

This resource is the first of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a volcano, add apples, control movement and add points when correct colour of apples are picked up. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu world with code - Demo world or file to give students to jump straight to the coding

This resource contains 66 videos which take students through how to use the basics and more advanced features of MS Excel. An intro video showing what students will create can be found here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_VegnuzyG2GOGR5NFdxZnFoRUk/view?usp=sharing This is a tried and tested unit which works with a broad range of abilities and usually takes about 8 hours to complete in full. Students need to create a school production spreadsheet which contains IF Statements, charts, vLookups, Macros, Conditional Formatting to name but a few. The pack contains a checklist which students can use to monitor their progress. The checklist also links to all of the videos.