ICT IGCSE Pacticals

I am so proud of my ICT students who sat their practical exams this week. Five hours of testing saw them manipulating databases, building presentations, writing formulas & functions, and creating web pages. 

Well done everyone - it looked like you did great. 

Peer Support

This photo was taken in an IGCSE ICT lesson where we were building tables on a webpage using HTML code. What does it look like to you ... the boys helping the girls out?

Actually, the boys came over to find out how the girls had done it! Haha. 

Techno Haiku

Students across KS3 have been writing Haiku Poetry today. We wrote a few about some of the content of our IGCSE course. Here are some examples...

Mainframe computers
Extremely large devices
Never stop working

Ergonomics is
Lower back support, wrists straight
Eyes looking forward

The World Wide Web speaks
Hypertext Markup Language
Or HTML

Laptops & notebooks
They are light and portable
My favourite things

VLOOKUP, COUNTIF
$B, SUM, MIN, MAX, IF
Excel spreadsheet - ugh!

Building a network.
Fibre, hubs, switches, routers
WAN, LAN? Confusing!

Girls & Technology

I received a list today of the Year 9 students who have opted to study the ICT iGCSE course next year. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many girls had decided to take the subject. There has been a great deal of concern over the years about the lack of girls taking ICT, and even the Computer Clubs for Girls organization had little impact. But the girls will make up 60% 66% of our ICT course at ISP, compared to the UK average of around 40%. Maybe the popularity of Computer Engineer Barbie, launched in 2010, has actually made a difference!