Grade 9

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

The passive voice in every tense, clauses that do a noun's, adjective's or adverb's job, conditionals and past modals, relative clauses and complex punctuation, and the precise word — plus reading across paragraphs, continuing a story, and editing at sentence level.

3 units · 10 skills

Multiplying out brackets and factorising them back, polynomials, quadratic equations, and arithmetic progressions.

4 units · 5 skills

Motion described in words, graphs and equations, forces and the three laws, work and energy, the inside of the atom and the way atoms combine, sound as a wave, the cell and the tissues built from it, and how life continues from one generation to the next.

6 units · 10 skills