{"id":880,"date":"2013-05-29T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=880"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:12:19","slug":"our-new-ks3-computing-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Our New KS3 Computing Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many ICT teachers I am currently making preparations to become a ‘Computing Teacher’. With this comes the responsibility of planning a new Computing curriculum in Key Stage \u00a03. I am very excited about making these changes and putting my Computing Degree into practice! Luckily I have been making some preparations for this already in my schemes of work in Scratch<\/a> and Kodu<\/a>, along with the basic introduction in PC Basics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my school we also have another change from September in that for the first time in a few years Year 7 will be having discreet ICT<\/del> Computing lessons. Up until now this has only been delivered in a cross-curricular fashion since the introduction of our transition school. I’m excited about being able to impact upon all three years of key stage 3 and get them programming from a younger age.<\/p>\n

For now I am mostly going to focus on Years 7 and 8 so they will have started to embed those skills ready for when we fully change to Computing in 2014. I’m also hoping to incorporate an OpenBadge system for each topic too (there are some samples of my badge designs below).<\/p>\n

So here is my big plan:<\/p>\n

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