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Key stage 4
Computer Science GCSE
concepts develop through our use of threads, which add vertical coherence. Explore free teaching resources for key stage 4, computer science, covering years 10 and 11. Save hours planning lessons with a slide deck, worksheet, prior knowledge starter and assessment exit quizzes and key vocabulary – all ready for you to teach and adapt for your pupils. You can download lesson and teaching resources, or log in and download units or save units to ‘my library’ – whichever is best for you to plan your computer science lesson. Read more about how the KS4 curriculum was designed in our explainer.
Units (15)
Units released in 2020-22
Resources made during the pandemic to support remote teaching.
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Data Representation
Year 10
9 lessons
2
Computer Systems
Year 10
12 lessons
3
Networks
Year 10
6 lessons
4
Security
Year 10
7 lessons
5
Impacts on society
Year 10
7 lessons
6
Algorithms
Year 10
11 lessons
7
Programming 1: Sequence
Year 11
5 lessons
8
Programming 2: Selection
Year 11
6 lessons
9
Programming 3: Iteration
Year 11
5 lessons
10
Programming 4: Subroutines
Year 11
6 lessons
11
Programming 5: Strings and lists
Year 11
10 lessons
12
Programming 6: Dictionaries and datafiles
Year 11
12 lessons
13
Databases and SQL
Year 11
5 lessons
14
HTML
Year 11
6 lessons
15
Object-oriented programming
Year 11
5 lessons