Year 11 Coursework Day - Tuesday 11 April 2006

The ICT Department will be holding a Year 11 coursework session in the Easter Holidays on Tuesday 11 April.

The session will run from 9:30 to 1:30 and will focus on completing unfinished and missing coursework for the GCSE Applied ICT Dual Award.

If you can't make this session, a list of what you should have done by 27 April with details of where to get information to help you do it now follows:

Report 2a) The use of ICT at Bolton Arena
Report 2b) Hardware and Software Systems used at Bolton Arena
Report 2c) ICT System Analysis and Design
Report 2d) ICT System Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and User Guide

Report 3a) Personal Use of ICT
Report 3b) A Working Adult's Use of ICT
Report 3c) ICT and Special Needs
Report 3d) ICT in the Community
Report 3e) ICT and Legislation

Report 3e) Can either be a separate report, or can be included in each of reports 3a) to 3d)

This is everything that you shouild have done for this course (except for the practical exam). Information about what has to be done can be found in two main places:

• By clicking on the underlined report links above
• Thomas Telford Online Resources

There may also be other resources available in the links on the right of this screen. I believe Sam Learning now has an Applied ICT section, but I haven't seen what's there.

You will need a username and password (as given out in school and a letter sent home) to access the Telford resources.

Mr. M. P. Jones
Head of IT

Year 11 Applied ICT Afterschool Coursework Sessions

The following afterschool sessions for Year 11 coursework will be running:

Week beginning March 20th:

• Miss Smith's classes - Monday 20th - in E3
• Mrs. Dawson's classes - Tuesday 21st - in E3
• Mr. Jones' classes - Wednesday 22nd - in E6
• Mr. Birchall's classes - Tuesday 23st - in e5

In these sessions you get one-to-one help with your teacher about a particular assignment or you can work on your own if you want.

Year 11 - Key Piece of Work (KPOW)

Year 11 Key Piece of Work: Due 16/3/06

Think of at least six questions to ‘ask’ this database – these will be answered by creating queries which will search the database. Your questions must be realistic, the typical kinds of questions that the Arena staff would want answer to. You should also state a reason for needing to do this search. E.g.

* Search for a person’s contact telephone by surname or membership number
* Search for all the classes taken by a particular instructor
* Search for all the members of a particular class
* Search for all the classes on a particular day
* etc, etc

To be able to search and find the answers in the database, the relevant data must be stored there in the first place. Your KPOW should be written in Word and will consist of text for the questions and reasons, and tables for the query designs (as shown in class).

Recent GCSE ICT Homeworks - Mr. Jones

Here's a reminder about the last three GCSE Applied ICT Homeworks that have been set:

Homework: Due 28/2/06

Create a screen input form for each of your three tables. You may draw this neatly by hand and stick it into your documentation, or use a drawing program to do it. Either way, three designs must appear in your design section.

Homework: Due 7/3/06

To produce your Test Data for the ICT Systems Project. Your test data should include normal, extreme and erroneous data to fully test how the database system handles each type. You should have:

* 20 Records for members with all their details
* 10 Classes with details e.g. Step Aerobics, Monday, 5pm, Studio 1, Mr. Smith etc

Each member needs to be enrolled in at least one class (some will have more) so there will be at least 20 enrolments.

Examples of what these forms should look like have been shown in lessons.

Homework: Due 9/3/06

Create a data capture form for the Bolton Arena database. This is the form that new members will complete with their details when they join the Arena. It should have all the same fields in it as the members’ table, because this will be used to enter each new members’ details into the database.

Year 11 Revision Sessions 13th-15th December

We will be running after school revision / workshop sessions on Tuesday 13th to Thursday 15th December 2005. If you have any problems with any of your ICT practical work there will be teachers available in E Block to help on these nights.

Don't forget your real ICT pratical exam is the first week back after Christmas, on the same day as your mock exam was in November. Check the lists on the top floor of E Block before you leave for Christmas, and take all your practical work home with you.

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