Enrichment Activities
Throughout the academic year, we offer many enrichments opportunities to develop:
- Soft skills and confidence
- Diverse learning opportunities
- Encourage creativity
- Develop interpersonal and team-building skills
- Learn about careers in the IT industry
Below are some examples of the Enrichment activities offered by the department:
Year 7 Sept-Oct Online Safety, Assembly to all Year 7s from PC Sharpe and Mrs N Joshi
Students will understand the:
- Importance of protecting username and password
- Issues with sharing emails that could have a virus
- Dangers of social media
- How to report an activity which they know have taken place
- Learn about the SENSO monitoring software used by teaching staff
- Importance of Firewall and Anti-Virus used on the network
Year 7 Nov – Dec: Network: Class workshop :
Students who are passionate to learn more about Networking, will participate in a bespoke workshop with the technicians who will learn more about the:
- Server room
- Wired and wireless networking
- Learn parts of the computer components and how to assemble them
Year 8 : Computer Systems : Jan – Feb: Class workshop
Students will learn about Computer Systems and essential hardware/software/operating system/CPU. They will be introduced to the components of a computer system and why they are essential, pricing and where to purchase these part. They will explore the inside of a computer and how to take these components apart. Students plan, as teams, how they are going to take them apart and the order of assembly.
Year 9s: Dec : Cyber Security
Year 9s will have a workshop delivered from the IT manager to discuss:
- What is a cyberattack? Why does cyberattacks take place?
- What are the TRUST’s preventative measures to cybersecurity
- Contingency plan
- Backup policies of the Trust and why these are important
KS3 microbits
During Spring Term we will plan a KS3 day – where students will design and create a game using microbits. We have previously worked with the Science department to design a “house” which is water-tight, students then programmed in microbit to sense if there is any water-leak.
Our Key Stages 3 , 4 and 5 students really enjoyed and found the Tech for Living in Space interactive session extremely beneficial today. We learnt about technology and science working in collaboration and discussed future projects of technology in Space. We hope our students have also been inspired to consider careers in technology linked to Science. The Computing and Science department will continue to work together in future enrichment activities - please keep a look out!
We are delighted to have successfully completed the year-long Computing Cluster programme where we have worked with other schools – including middle schools and have shared high-quality computing in education. Our Online Ambassadors have really been involved with promoting The Space Education Quality Mark (SEQM) which is designed to support the subject of space to inspire and engage their students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Mrs Joshi and Ms Eades had worked to encourage computing and Physics combined to deliver the enrichment along with encouraging Women in STEM, which also worked extremely well during Internal Women’s Week in March 2025. We have also delivered enrichment activities to further expand our student knowledge of “What makes the inside of a computer”