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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| Meaning | Word |
| A small amount of very fast memory inside the CPU | |
| The number of fetch-decode-execute cycles each second | |
| A processing unit that can run its own fetch-decode-execute cycle | |
| Main memory that holds the programs and data in use; slower than cache |
| Laptop A | Laptop B | |
| Clock speed | 2.4 GHz | 3.6 GHz |
| Cores | 8 | 2 |
| Cache | 16 MB | 4 MB |