This is designed as a 2 hour year 10 Lesson the first of my lessons on the Data Representation section of the J276/J277 course. This lesson is completely in line with the J276/J277 Specification. In this lesson the idea of Binary is introduced, converting binary to denary and the reverse of this. After this Character representation is introduced, Character sets, ASCII and UNICODE. The PowerPoint is designed to be using the ‘OpenDyslexic’ font, I have included a pdf of the lesson to that the layout can be seen if your school does not us this font. Enjoy.

In this pack is a presentation that talks the students through a set of programming projects designed to get the students used to the NEA they will be completing in Spetember of their second year on the course. There are three differentiated task; Hangman, Recipes and Password Checker. Whilst i have made a suggestion to their difficulty (Based off my own students and the skills used to solve the problem) each task can be extended easily to include CSV manipulation, Defensive Design and Error Handling ( I used this to extend the task with my Y10’s). Each task comes with a project specification the students can use to create their success criteria. The PowerPoint gives hints on how to complete each section of the students programming project template., from; Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Evaluation. I have provided flowchart solutions for each task, which can be used to scaffold for low ability students, getting them to complete Pseudocode and their code for the task. The recipes task can easily be extended to use CSV or Text files as well as using sub routines for each recipe. The PowerPoint is made with the ‘OpenDyslexic’ font with Dyslexic students in mind. All the solutions for each of the tasks have been added, The solutions are using high ability skills, defensive programming (In the j276 spec). This is so you can differentiate down if needed. I have also provided an expected output for each program, this is something you can show students in the early phase as I feel seeing a physical outcome of a program makes it easier for them to understand how to create a solution. Enjoy the independent work with your students, Please comment and let me know your feedback!

This is a Lesson for teaching Logic Gates, Complete with differentiated worksheets. The PowerPoint is self explanatory and has corresponding slides for the task sheets. The plenary assumes your students planners have green, amber and red cards in them. If they do not you can either print and laminate your own or use hands up.

The resources in this pack contain a information sheets perfectly for printing double sided and using by students for referencing or independent revision. There is one sheet for each topic in the A451 specification. All sheets use 'OpenDyslexic' font so are friendly for dyslexic students.

All the help sheets below were created inline with the specification for OCR J276 ‘Computational thinking, algorithms and programming’ and ‘Programming Project’ sections of the course. I created these for my own Year 10 students and they have found them very useful, when introducing sections of Python programming theory, Flowcharts and Pseudocode. I use these in lessons to drive independence and as a reference for the pupils whilst programming so they are not constantly looking things up on the internet. They find the sheet with the topic on and the key information is there. In my classroom I have arranged a display using folders to hold the sheets so the students can walk up and grab the sheet that best suits their needs at the time. Hope they help!

This contains six python challenges, with accompanying solutions. Each activity is broken down into a few success criteria, with extensions for higher level skill use.