By creating a Times Table Learning Game on Scratch, students can become familiar with key programming terms: Sequence Selection Iteration Variables Includes lesson powerpoint, student resource and Scratch quiz. Update: Additional resource added - screenshots of Scratch code for quiz in case you are not using Scratch 2 offline editor. Follow on lesson - Direct Reflection and Improvement Time. How much do they now understand.

As requested by my students to practice for their controlled assessment, prompt sheets for common tasks. Adding a record number to a file. Reading from, writing to, appending file. Lists, for loops and while loops. Troubleshooting Trees

Practice for A453 Controlled Assessment. Allocating a job number to a file. Adding record of job to file.

KS3 Computing Curriculum Linking together: Programming, ICT and Computer Science. Key Concept sheets used to support learning of key terms in lesson.

Year 8 - HTML & Dreamweaver Project on Security Systems. How to user guide for common tasks in Dreamweaver. Students have on desk to prevent need to teacher-assist: 1) Look in the How to Guide 2) Ask a peer for help 3) If you still don't know, then ask the teacher.

An example of how to present the planning, development, testing and evaluation of a Python program - to assist students in the thought process/evidence required for the A453 Controlled Assessment.

Independent Enquiry - Activity to encourage students to develop confidence in basic programming skills: Purple - Low ability, Blue - Middle Ability, Yellow - Higher ability Possible solution - Python - in text file.

A differentiated assessment to measure individual progress in introductory Python unit: Sequence, Selection and Iteration.

Combining Python skills in the introductory unit. Practice programs prior to student assessment next week. Text file contains a possible solution - copy and paste the code into Python.

Using spreadsheets to calculate Mean, Mode and Median. Supporting cross-curricular numeracy in the Computing department.

Homework project based on unit looking at Data Analysis by Tesco.

Homework to support Year 9 unit on Technological Development.

Homework to support a Year 9 unit on spreadsheets.

End of unit assessment for Python Introduction - The Basics. Differentiated for low, middle and high ability students. Supported by end of unit self-assessment checklist.

A revision resource developed to revise key terms for the introductory unit of Python with examples from the code students have used in the unit.

A differentiated test: Theory - Understanding Computers/Practical - Python with Reeborg.