Curriculum : ICT Staff Ms Maljee (Head of ICT) ICT at The Grey Coat Hospital Information and Communication Technology is an important and fundamental part of our lives. The continuing growth in the use of mobile phones, home computers, laptop, mp3 players and the internet is affecting the way we all live and work. ICT explores the use of ICT in society and provides students with the essential background to work and live in a technological society. In Year 7 we explore... * Presentations * E-Safety * Collect Informaton and Data * Desktop Publishing * Spreadsheets * Databases * Control In Year 8 we explore... * Datalogging and Computer Systems * Website Design * Searching the Internet * Extended Spreadsheets * Sequencing Instructions * Podcasting In Year 9 we explore... * Control, Modelling, Presenting, Desktop Publishing * Communication, Collecting Data, Web Design, Databases, Reports * Researching, Mail Merge, Systems GCSE At GCSE we complete OCR Nationals in ICT Level 2. Completing the following units Compulsory Unit * Unit 01 - ICT Skills for Business Elective Units available for GCH Students * Unit 02 - Webpage Creation * Unit 04 - Design and Produce Multimedia Products * Unit 05 - Desktop Publishing * Unit 06 - Spreadsheets * Unit 20 - Creating animation for the WWW * Unit 22 - Creating sound using ICT OCR Nationals provide students with an opportunity to gain a transferable qualification that clearing outlines the skills and understanding that they have gained over the course of two years in years 10 and 11. For more information go to http://www.ocrnationals.com and http://www.gch.org.uk/main/