1. Why choose Computing at Forest 6?
Jax Snipp
Subject Leader – Computer Studies

2. What have we got to offer?
Highly qualified staff with many years industry experience in Computing and ICT
Exciting courses – A level and Vocational offerings in Computing and ICT

3. Previous Year 13
2016: We had 5 pupils successfully complete an AS level in Computing.
2016: We had 7 pupils successfully complete an A level in ICT.
2016: We had 25 pupils complete the Cambridge Technicals (2012) Double Award (equivalent of 2 A levels) and 5 pupils who completed the Single Award (equivalent of 1 A level). Out of these 30 pupils, the majority passed with Distinction and Distinction * grades – equivalent UCAS points of A and A*.
2015: In 2014 we had 11 students pass the double award with Distinction and Distinction * grades.
Many of these pupils went on to study courses in IT or Computing related subjects at University.

4. Current Year 13
We have 15 pupils currently studying the Cambridge Technicals (2012) Single Award (equivalent of 1 A level).
We have 7 students currently studying A level ICT.
Both the 2012 CTECH course and the A Level ICT course have been discontinued and replaced with the new CTEC 2016 course.
We also have 4 pupils studying A level Computing.

5. Current Year 12 We have 20 pupils studying the new CTEC 2016 course.
We also have 12 pupils studying Computing at AS level.

6. A Level Computing
AS Level – separate 1 year course with 2 exams at the end
Computing principles
1 hour 15 minutes : worth 50%
Algorithms and problem solving
A2 level – builds on the knowledge of AS plus extra content with 2 exams at the end plus project
Computer systems (2 hours 30 minutes : worth 40%)
Algorithms and programming (2 hours 30 minutes : worth 40%)
Programming project (worth 20%)

7. Why study computing? It opens up doors for you!
There are lots of jobs in computing
But even if you don’t want to work in computing, learning how to think in a computational way will help you in all of your subjects at A level and also all jobs and in your personal life
It will help you think logically about everything you do and help you solve problems.

8. AS Level Computing Exam Board – OCR Content of course:
Computing Principles 50%:
The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output, storage devices, software and software development, programming, exchanging data, data types, data structures and algorithms, legal, moral, ethical and cultural issues

9. AS Level Computing Algorithms and problem solving 50%:
Elements of computational thinking
Problem solving and programming
Algorithms

10. A2 Level Computing Computer systems (2 hours 30 minutes : worth 40%)
Algorithms and programming (2 hours 30 minutes : worth 40%)
Programming project (worth 20%) – This is a real-life project. For example – create a computer system using Python, SQL database back-end and web front-end. Or create a game (a maths challenge game such as Soduko) that has different levels.