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Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
This product contains access to all of modules and lessons you will need to teach the entire ICT IGCSE Course. It follows the Edexcel specification but the cross over with Cambridge spec makes it also a worthwhile investment for this too (I have taught both before).
Unit 1 - Digital Devices (17 lessons)
Unit 2 - Connectivity (11 lessons)
Unit 3 - Operating Online (26 lessons )
Unit 4 - Online Services (5 lessons)
Unit 5 - Applying ICT (7 lessons)
Unit 6 - Word, PPT, Excel, web authoring and graphics- basics & advanced (19 lessons)
Unit 6 Database skills (MS Access) (6 lessons).
Also included are some introduction to coding lessons, including HTML which has a direct link to the GCSE content.
KS3 Coding Module (8 lessons)
HTML Basics Module (8 Lessons)
The price is a significant mark down from purchasing all the lessons individually on the TES.
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This series of 6 lessons cover all the database skills required to use MS Access competently and develops students theoretical knowledge of key database terms and concepts. Ideally suited for any educational curriculum but specially modelled around the EDEXCEL IGCSE ICT ).
Each lesson builds towards a Ferrari World theme park (UAE) case study and contains:
• A literacy, numeracy, think settler activity.
• Flash cards for all key words
• Explainer slides
• A range of activities.
• Videos (in both MP4 & YouTube links)
• Access to a google quiz for effective student progress checks and retrieval practice (2 quizzes in total – basic and an advanced quiz)
Lesson topics:
• Data Types and Data Entry (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Key Relationships and Key Types (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Validation & Sorting (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Queries & Operators (incl. 4 teacher tutorial videos)
• Reports & Mail Merge (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Revision (37 flashcards and a range of revision activities)
Purchasing the whole scheme of work provides you with a passcode for a dedicated webpage with links to everything.
These lessons have been used with English as Additional Language students to great effect within an International School setting.
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Designed purely with EAL students in mind. Each lesson features a fun and active way of learning 4-6 keywords/script with a progress check at the end. Lessons then include an example, usually with a screen grab video to aid teaching, followed by an exercise on w3schools.com. Plenary checks their progress against the LOs.
Simple. Effective. Free.
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Covers a range of topics and company case studies.
Each lesson begins with an introduction to the case study context, before moving on to the theory to be learned and then ends with an example style questions where students need to combine elements from the two.
Skills covered include (but are not limited to…):
Break Even Points
Market Share
Distribution Methods
Market Segments
Location Factors
Tax and Government Policy
Inflation
Patents
Outsourcing
Finance Options
Unions
Types of Businesses
Business Growth
Microfinance
Entrepreneurial Characteristics
Index Funds
Private Equity
Commodity Markets
Globalisation
Companies covered include (but are not limited to…):
Microsoft
Activision
IKEA
Netflix
Apple
American Airlines
IndiGo Airlines
Blackrock
Purdue Pharma
SpaceX
Jamie’s Italian
ARM
Adidas
Iveric Bio
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Overview: This lesson covers innovations in video game consoles from 1961 onwards. It has a relay activity followed by a written paragraph with peer assessments. Complete with differentiation sheets, plenaries, starters, lesson plan and pedagogy justifications.
Cardinal’s Corner: Do not be deceived.
This is an incredibly rich and well written book. Yes, it is about video games. But that does not in any way detract from its quality as a piece of writing. The author, David Sheff, is famed for having done one of the last interviews with John Lennon and his articles have appeared in all sorts of publications. It is essentially a history of one of the most culturally important companies of the late twentieth (and early twenty first) century. Nintendo as a company is over a hundred years old and the stories goes right back to its early days in Kyoto as a maker of card games (I’ve actually been lucky enough to visit their original office when on vacation).
I got this book free with a computer game magazine when I was in high school. I read it all in about a week – not bad for a 13 year old kid. When I came to re-read it as an adult I found it equally as fascinating and if pushed I would say this was probably my favourite book of all time. It is oozing with anecdotes and provides a depth of historical contexts – from how the Nintendo company survived the second world war to a Cold War legal battle with the Soviet Union over the video game rights to Tetris.
A fascinating read – and one that be found on pdf here.
Video games are a hugely important part of our recent culture, they’re something that all our pupils are familiar with and they provide a hugely important learning tool. Even commercial games are uniquely powerful at teaching children. I was once astonished in one of my worst Year 9 classes when a child started talking with some confidence about the work of Leonardo De Vinci and asked, entirely unprompted, “Wasn’t he important during the Renaissance?”. Of course, what had he been playing? Assassins Creed. That same game series incidentally hires historical consultants to get as an accurate picture of the past, in the same way that Hollywood movies do. One of the Assassin Creed games features an accurate model of Colonial Boston – based on maps and drawings of the times – in which the player explores and meets key characters, like Benjamin Franklin. I also, perhaps flippantly, swear that is a good grounding in Civilization 2 that got me my GCSE in History and an unhealthy obsession with Sim City that let me cruise to top grades in GCSE Geography. Games are not to be dismissed as learning tools.
Indeed, my hunch is that in the near future games will do most of the teaching for us. Keep checking back at Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds page to see how that’s coming along.
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17 lessons, Fully Resourced
16 Guided Reading Worksheets
The Computer Revolution -
Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below).
Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments.
The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy
The lessons are as follows:
Enigma and Turing (free)
The History of Women in Computing (free)
The Microchip and Moore’s Law
The PC, GUI and Microsoft
How Video Games Shaped Our World
Mid-Unit Test and Revision
Impact of the Internet
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free)
Covid Track and Trace
Quantum Computing (free)
Artemis and Space X
Facial Recognition
Digital Divide
DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free)
Emerging Technologies and their impact
Cybersecurity case studies
Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment.
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Catering for Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 2: Connectivity.
11 Lessons in total. Alllessons are free to download except the revision lessons which come with printable guides and links to online exams (lessons 6 & 11)
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the revision guide features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. The SOW has an online mid and end of unit test that can be found at Wolsey Academy’s website.
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT iGCSE.
16 Lessons covering all aspects of the human history in space.
From Sputnik to the Shuttle to Artemis. We’ve got you covered.
16 fascinating and varied resources to teach your students about the final frontier
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A stand alone lesson or a great introduction to a variety of topics - using Fortnite trackers as a (worryingly successful) hook.
Includes:
Business Studies: Mini-Business Case study of Epic Games and it’s unique business model + comparisons to others
ICT: Excel formulas, SUM, AVERAGE, adding charts, calculating % increases and using conditional formatting.
Maths: Understanding and practice of % increases
Features stretch activities and literacy questions, literacy and numeracy settler activity, peer assessments and a plenary quiz.
Excel features demonstrated in a series of video clips (embedded in the PowerPoint).
~ Every time my students were given a chance they’d be checking their stats on Fortnite tracker - I figure if pupils are interested in stats this is too good an opportunity to pass up. If you can’t beat them - join 'em.
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IT Essentials – Algorithms and Flowcharts – A Level
Complete lesson. Basic algorithm explainer and practice exercises. Flow chart model and variables explained. Flow chart activity and questions. 2 Revision Flash cards.
Ideal for IT and Computer Science. Designed for use be expert and non-expert teachers alike.
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Unit 3, Edexcel, IGCSE ICT.
26 Lessons in total – including three progress check & quiz lessons.
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the end of unit test lesson features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. All include keyword literacy worksheets.
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT IGCSE.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
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This educational bundle offers a focused exploration of the significant roles women have played throughout different periods and across various cultures. It is designed for students interested in understanding the impactful contributions and challenges faced by women in history.
Included Lessons:
Boudicca’s Revolt
Queen Nzinga Mbande of Angola
Women in Nazi Germany
Women in the Viking Age
Women’s Suffrage in the US
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
Ada Lovelace
Margaret Thatcher
Edith Maud Cook
Queen Al Khayzuran of Baghdad
Women in Mao’s China
Women in Computing
Women in the First World War
Medicine - Elizabeth Garret Anderson
Medicine - Florence Nightingale
Medicine - Marie Curie
This bundle provides a comprehensive overview, emphasizing the diverse roles women have assumed and their profound influence on historical developments and societal changes.
Features all the keywords and script from this mini-SOW in an easy to print revision guide.
Also features two online quizzes that pupil’s can complete (And which self-mark). First quiz focuses on first half of the Beginners SOW and the second on the later half.
Designed purely with EAL students in mind. Each lesson features a fun and active way of learning 4-6 keywords/script with a progress check at the end. Lessons then include an example, usually with a screen grab video to aid teaching, followed by an exercise on w3schools.com. Plenary checks their progress against the LOs.
Simple. Effective. Free.
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This lesson is from a 11 lesson SOW and contains:
A. Video Tutorials (Lessons 1 – 10)
B. Interactive Progress Checks (Online Quizzes with instant feedback (Lessons 1 – 8)).
C. Literacy , Numeracy and ‘Think’ Starters
D. A Cross-Curricular Theme to each topic
E. Stretch Questioning and Activities
F. Literacy mat
G. Lesson plan template.
This 11 lesson mini SOW has proved invaluable in covering seemingly basic, but often overlooked, skills ready for the Edexcel IGCSE ICT exam, Paper 2 (which covers unit 6).
Taken from a SOW that consists of 11 lessons:
File Manager.
Word, Part A – Climate change project
Word, Part B – Climate change project
PowerPoint, Part A – Liverpool FC Project
PowerPoint, Part B – Liverpool FC Project.
Excel, English Premier League Project
Excel, Fortnite Project
Excel, SpaceX Project
First Test Lesson – WW2 project.
Post Test Feedback and all tutorials.
Final Test – Solar Company project.
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WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This lesson is from a 11 lesson SOW and contains:
A. Video Tutorials (Lessons 1 – 10)
B. Interactive Progress Checks (Online Quizzes with instant feedback (Lessons 1 – 8)).
C. Literacy , Numeracy and ‘Think’ Starters
D. A Cross-Curricular Theme to each topic
E. Stretch Questioning and Activities
F. Literacy mat
G. Lesson plan template.
This 11 lesson mini SOW has proved invaluable in covering seemingly basic, but often overlooked, skills ready for the Edexcel IGCSE ICT exam, Paper 2 (which covers unit 6).
Taken from a SOW that consists of 11 lessons:
File Manager.
Word, Part A – Climate change project
Word, Part B – Climate change project
PowerPoint, Part A – Liverpool FC Project
PowerPoint, Part B – Liverpool FC Project.
Excel, English Premier League Project
Excel, Fortnite Project
Excel, SpaceX Project
First Test Lesson – WW2 project.
Post Test Feedback and all tutorials.
Final Test – Solar Company project.
Hope it helps,
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
A lesson for the ICT EDEXCEL: IGCSE Unit 4 Scheme of Work.
5 lessons in all that cover (it is by far the smallest of the 6 units in the GCSE).
Types of Online Services
Impact of the Internet
Transactional Data
Cloud Computing
End of unit Revision & Test (with link to an online bespoke unit 4 Quiz)
Each lesson comes with:
A complete 5-minute lesson plan for that lesson.
Literacy/Numeracy/Think settler
Kagan Activity for keyword acquisition (Quiz-Quiz-Trade or Relay activity)
A main activity dependent on the key topic.
A plenary
A set of lesson specific keyword cards
A literacy extension mat
An EAL keyword focus activity sheet
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IT Essentials – Encryption – A Level
Complete lesson. Caesar Cipher, Symmetric, Asymmetric, SSL, TLS and real world examples. Google Quiz plenary. 6 Revision Flash Cards.
Ideal for IT and Computer Science. Designed for use be expert and non-expert teachers alike.
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9 lessons to introduce coding concepts to your students.
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Part of a SOW of 7 lessons with a revision guide and online test at the end.
Designed for EAL and weaker students to introduce them to new vocabulary regarding coding, robotics and the future of AI. Later lessons make use of Google Doodles, Ozobots, Robozzle and Scratch to demonstrate some very fundamental coding techniques and functions.
Lessons blend key word acquisition with basic skills, ideal for EAL and weaker students.
Can also act as a general introduction to these concepts to all classes.
Designed for all ICT/Computer Science courses.
1. Impact on society
2. Case study on autonomous vehicles
3. Repeat Functions (via a Google Doodle exercise)
4. Debugging (Using Ozobots)
5. Subroutines (Using Robozzle)
6. Random Function (Scratch Star Wars Game)
7. IF statements and compilers (Scratch Flappy Birds Game)
8. Revision Guide.
I use this at my school to send to non-specialists that may have been given an ICT/Computer Science cover at short notice. Just makes sure the lesson is used productively but also places very few demands on the cover teacher.
It has:
A literacy/numeracy and keyword starter.
A brief piece of context.
Links to SIX free online coding games/sites that the students can complete. Each site comes with its own tutorials and explainer videos so most students can access them straight away.
A simple post-it note plenary.
Hope it helps.
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