Key Stage 3

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2. Beverley Dillon March 24, 2013 at 10:22

   Hi,
   I like your resources . I work in KS2 and many of your KS3 resources are useful to us. I am going to try Kodu with my years 5 and 6. They love Scrath and Alice, so this should be fun.
3. Nicki Post authorMarch 28, 2013 at 08:29

   Hi, thanks for the comment. I’m glad you find my resources useful! 🙂
4. Jane August 22, 2013 at 18:43

   Hi Nikki, I am just in the middle of developing a new KS3 curriculum, which will be suitable for the 2014 curriculum and am really impressed by your ideas and the quality of your resources. I am collaborating with a number of colleagues from a few different schools and am hoping that many heads will make for a fantastic curriculum. We will also be focusing on assessment and coming up with an alternative to the old levels, which are being dropped in the new 2014 curriculum. I will email you everything we come up with to keep the sharing alive. Many thanks and good luck with the new term x
5. Nicki Post authorSeptember 30, 2013 at 16:56

   Hi Jane, many thanks. I look forward to hearing from you 🙂
6. Tammy June 10, 2014 at 11:53

   Thank You niki. We don’t teach year 7’s but from next year we are having to do that so I was looking for inspiration and I came across your web page.

   Very good SOW- excellent. Thank you very much for the resources. I will let you know which one’s I might be using.
7. Gareth Martin July 5, 2014 at 21:31

   Entry level computing in the last term of year 9. I ran it last year from September to April and that was tight.
8. Nicki Post authorJuly 6, 2014 at 11:12

   How many lessons per week is that? I did a slightly condensed version with the year 9s in my last school and covered most of the content (except the exam) from April to July. That was with two lessons a week. I’m not sure yet whether to actually run the full qualification or just pick out key parts to prepare them for the GCSE.
9. Gareth Martin July 6, 2014 at 19:01

   Hi Nicki,

   We did the OCR entry level course. There are small 3 small exams (24 marks), a controlled assessment (40 marks) and a presentation on trends in computing (16 marks). We only had one hour a week though. Do you think the specification may have changed? You have to get the final marks in by May 15th, then a sample of work is asked for.
10. Fasal August 28, 2014 at 00:56

    Excellent resources. I will be teaching python to key stage 3 and this all will be new to them, therefore which version of python would be easy for students to learn? where can I download it from?
11. Nicki Post authorAugust 29, 2014 at 20:16

    All versions are probably on par but I would say you should always use the most up-to-date versions possible, currently that is version 3.4.1 and can be downloaded from here: https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.4.1/
12. Victoria October 2, 2014 at 21:38

    Nikki,

    Your resources are amazing. The students in Year 7 at my school are enjoying Digital Literacy at the moment, your PowerPoint slides are eye catching. I’m looking forward to delivering your ‘What are Computers?’ scheme to all my KS3 students as an introduction to Computing – I love the slides and activities so I’m sure the boys will too!

    Thanks for sharing, it really has made my live easier this September.

    Tor
13. Shirley October 16, 2014 at 12:55

    Thanks so much for sharing these
14. Sasha November 19, 2014 at 21:01

    Thank you so much for sharing these, I am new to teaching ICT and these are helping a lot! I was just wondering when the rest of the topics will be updated? They are so brilliant!
15. Nicki Post authorDecember 10, 2014 at 21:32

    Hi Sasha

    Pleased you find them useful. Can’t put a timeline on it I’m afraid, I’m working through them but I’m a little behind schedule as I’ve had a busy term.

    Thanks

    Nicki
16. Matt Jones February 9, 2015 at 15:28

    Nicki

    Just wanted to say a massive thanks for posting your resources online, resources that must have taken you many hours/days/weeks/months to put together!!!

    We have used many of your resources since we have switched to Computer Science and our students have loved them, and I just wanted to show my appreciation to you for doing this, your generosity is truly amazing…

    Matt
17. Nicki Post authorFebruary 13, 2015 at 17:06

    Hi Matt thanks for such a lovely comment, made my day!

    Nicki
18. Michael March 31, 2015 at 12:31

    Hi Nicki,

    I am using your units of work with KS3 and they are really enjoying them. Do you have any further information for the release of your Year 9 units please?

    Many thanks,

    Michael
19. Nicki Post authorApril 3, 2015 at 18:47

    Hi Michael

    The most recent year 9 SoW I added was the Web Development one. I’m currently working on the Wedding Planner but it won’t be ready for a good month or so as I’m busy over Easter. (bit behind schedule with resource development in general!)

    Nicki
20. Louise Rennie June 1, 2015 at 11:10

    Excellent resources! Any chance you have finished the other units for KS3? I hope you don’t mind me using/adapting yours for delivery in September 2015.

    Louise
21. Nicki Post authorJune 4, 2015 at 13:29

    Hi Louise, thanks for the feedback. They’re not finished yet, I’ll uploaded them once they are done. I’m hoping to get a few finished this term as I have some gained time from year 11 leaving.

    Nicki
22. Shaun Whorton June 5, 2015 at 11:34

    Hi Nicki,
    I came across your Web Awareness SOW on the CAS forums which lead me to here. Can I just say, as a fellow CS teacher, just how impressed I am with these resources. I am currently re-writing our KS3 curriculum for next year and your resources feature heavily throughout. Very interesting, accessible and fun all round! I can’t wait to see your other SOW’s when they are published. Your generosity is hugely appreciated. Please drop me a line should you need any resources of mine for KS4/5.
23. Nicki Post authorJune 19, 2015 at 19:42

    Hi Shaun

    Thank you for the lovely comment, glad to hear you are finding my resources useful!

    Nicki
24. Jonathan Prosser August 27, 2015 at 15:42

    I work at Centre Academy East Anglia, and teach ICT at a special needs school. I was new to teaching this level last year and used you Grand Designs material which was a great help. Is the material free? I may like to use some of your Digital Literacy or What are Computers material this term?
25. Nicki Post authorAugust 29, 2015 at 09:12

    Hi Jonathan, yes it’s all free to use. Enjoy!
26. Heather August 31, 2015 at 13:39

    I am looking at putting something new again into year 9. The level 1 computing OCR is where my thoughts lie at the moment. On an hour per week for core students how did you find this?
    Thanks
27. Elliot August 31, 2015 at 16:47

    These resources are amazing, thank you 😀
28. Nicki Post authorSeptember 2, 2015 at 15:10

    Hi Heather

    I didn’t end up doing it this year as other topics took a lot longer than I’d planned. I’m not sure whether I’ll run the whole course this year or maybe just aspects of it. Hope it goes well.

    Nicki
29. Melanie September 20, 2015 at 19:49

    Hi Nicki,

    Really loving your resources. Ironically, we paid for a subscription to access some KS3 resources as we recreate our new curriculum – and I have replaced a lot of what we originally planned to use with your gorgeous work. Thank you so much for your generosity, our pupils are very happy ICT’ers! (and CS’ers obviously..!)
30. Helen October 18, 2015 at 15:35

    Hi Nikki
    Just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for sharing your resources. They are fantastic! I love your PowerPoint designs and clarity and they have given me so much inspiration. My year 7s and 8s have loved the what are computers unit and looking forward next half term to the KODU. The other day they begged me to do some more binary coding with them (after teaching it to them the previous week, and this was bottom set)! My year 11 computer scientist could believe what we were doing and having so much fun as well. Really looking forward to teaching the other units. In the past we have wasted so much money on poor resources, but yours are amazing. Thank you again.
31. Nicki Post authorOctober 22, 2015 at 09:08

    Wow, thank you for such a lovely comment Helen! That’s made my morning!

    Nicki
32. Emma January 8, 2016 at 12:12

    Hi Nicki,

    I just wanted to say a very big thank you to you. I am a primary trained Music and HPE teacher. I have been thrown in the deep end this year and I am going to be teaching 7, 8 and 9 ICT. Two months ago, I didn’t even know what coding was (I’m still teaching myself the very basics). Your resources have been a MASSIVE help to me. I’m very slowly starting to gain enough confidence to teach this subject, this is because of you. 🙂 I am looking forward to seeing your year 9 unit with “Crime Computer Lab”. That sounds extremely interesting.
    Emma
33. Nicki Post authorMay 6, 2016 at 21:32

    Hi Emma, unfortunately it will be a while before I develop further resources. I’m currently on maternity leave after a rather eventful few months, you can read about what’s happened on my most recent blog post.