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Year 10
Curriculum Map
This curriculum map provides an overview of the computer science journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of computational concepts, programming languages, and digital projects alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop technical understanding, coding proficiency, and computational thinking appropriate to their age and stage.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Assessment |
| Autumn 1 | Boolean Logic | End of Unit written assessment |
| Memory and Storage (units and numbers) | ||
| Algorithms (designing, creating, and refining algorithms) | ||
| Autumn 2 | Algorithms(designing, creating, and refining algorithms) | Practical Programming |
| Programming fundamentals | ||
| Spring 1 | Programming fundamentals | Practical Programming |
| Additional programming techniques | End of unit written assessment | |
| Spring 2 | Memory and storage - data storage (image, characters and sound) | End of unit written assessment |
| Systems architecture (CPU and CPU performance) | ||
| Summer 1 | Memory and storage | End of unit written assessment |
| Networks, connections and protocols (Networks and topologies) | ||
| Summer 2 | Networks, connections and protocols - Wired and wireless networks (protocols and layers) | End of unit written assessment |