Year 11 GCSE Applied ICT Work

All Year 11 pupils studying the GCSE Applied ICT course should be working on their practical skills for exam in January 2006.

The exams run from Tuesday January 10th to Thursday January 12th 2006. In the event of anyone being ill it may be possible to hold an extra session on Friday 13th January, but nobody wants to do that do they!?!

The exams will run exactly as the mock exams did in November, with pupils sitting in the sessions published on the wall outside the ICT Rooms in E-block. Morning break, lesson 3 and Lunchtime have changed just for the day of your exam, exactly as in the mocks. The practical exam lasts for 2 and half hours.

Over the Christmas Vacation you will need to revise from the following things, and therefore you need to take them home at the end of this term.

• Candidate Kit Booklet
• Pre-release Material Booklet
• Your printouts answering the tasks
• Your Mock Exam paper (marked with corrections)
• May 2005 past paper and printouts

We come back to school on January 9th 2006, and this is quite late compared to some schools. There is plenty of time for you to revise and practise your ICT skills after the Christmas and New Year celebrations have finished on January 2nd. The first examination session is on Tuesday 10th January at 9am. Check the lists upstairs in E Block before you leave at the end of term, to remind yourself of your exam date and time.

Don't forget that help is available online using the Thomas Telford Resources here and DiDA Delivered here, but you may need to remind yourself about the username and passwords to logon to the Telford materials.

You may leave any questions you may have for your ICT teacher at the bottom of this message, but they will not appear on the blog until we have seen them.

Mr. M. Jones

Head of IT

Welcome to WHS GCSE ICT Homework and Help

Welcome to the Homework and Help Blog for all GCSE ICT Courses at Westhoughton High School. Here you will find details of what you should be working on at home, together with details of any help that we can provide.

On the right hand side are links to useful ICT Websites for all the courses that are offered here, and these will often be used in the ICT homework that is set by our teachers.

All coursework deadlines and details of revision sessions will also be posted here, so remember to visit this site every week. Your parents can even use this blog from home to see what homework you should be doing.

Mr. M. Jones
Head of IT