Year 10

Three grades of computing without a word about using one safely is a gap this year closes: passwords become a counting problem, a phishing message is checked against a list rather than a feeling, and the trail you leave behind turns out to be arithmetic. Then files learn to be measured and squeezed, and programs stop holding one value at a time — lists, text, loops that run until something is true rather than a fixed number of times, and the two oldest jobs there are: finding something, and putting things in order.

4 units · 12 skills

Formal and informal writing, connectors across a whole passage, keeping one tense, reporting a question or command, conditionals and past modals, complex punctuation, grammar inside a passage, the precise word, reading across paragraphs, and a formal letter or a continued story.

3 units · 13 skills

Quadratic equations, similar triangles, interest that compounds, and the surface area and volume of spheres and cones.

3 units · 4 skills

The cell and the tissues built from it, how life continues from one generation to the next and how that diversity is sorted out, mixtures and how to pull them apart, the inside of the atom and the way atoms combine, motion in words, graphs and equations, forces and the three laws, work and energy, and sound as a wave.

6 units · 12 skills