| Autumn 1 (Sept – Oct) | Autumn 2 (Nov – Dec) | Spring 1 (Jan – Feb) | Spring 2 (Mar – Apr) | Summer (May – Jun) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Title | • Data representation | • Hardware | • Security | • Artificial intelligence | • Revision and Exam Practice |
| • Communication and internet technologies | • System software and virtual machines | • Further programming | • Further programming | ||
| • Computational thinking and problem solving | • Computational thinking and problem solving | ||||
| Key Skills and Content | • User-defined data types | • Processors and parallel processing | • Encryption | • Shortest path algorithms | • Exam technique and practice |
| • File organisation and access | • Boolean algebra and logic circuits | • Quantum cryptography | • Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning | • Revision skills | |
| • Floating-point numbers, representation and manipulation | • Purpose of an operating system | • Protocols | • File processing and exception handling | ||
| • Algorithms | • Virtual machines | • Digital signatures | |||
| • Translation software | • Programming paradigms | ||||
| • Recursion | |||||
| Summative Assessment | Practice Exam (taken from past exam papers) | Practice Exam (taken from past exam papers) | Practice Exam (taken from past exam papers) | Practice Exam (practical) preparation for final examination | Practice Exam (theory) preparation for final examination |
