Read the map from the bottom. Year 7 starts on the left, and the line climbs through Years 8 and 9 into IGCSE, then on to IB in the sixth form.
Dashed rings mark this half-term's units. Taught half-terms are ticked in the year plans.
When each Year 7–9 unit is taught. Select a unit to see its lessons.
Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science (0478) across Years 10 and 11, 3 lessons a week. Select a topic to see what it covers and open its lessons.
IB Diploma Computer Science for the 2027 exams, across Years 12 and 13, 4 lessons a week. It follows the IB's suggested order: A1 to A3 and then programming (B1 to B3) in Year 12; the internal assessment, A4 Machine learning and the Paper 1 case study in Year 13. HL extensions are taught alongside each topic.
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| Term | Meaning |
| Hacking | |
| Brute-force attack | |
| Data interception | |
| DDoS attack |
| Story | Motive | Threat type |
| A gaming website goes offline for a day after millions of requests arrive at once from thousands of devices. | ||
| Someone on café Wi-Fi captures the messages other people send. | ||
| A program tries thousands of passwords on a streaming account until one works. | ||
| A former employee gets into a company's system after leaving and deletes files. |