At Key Stage 3 students learn follow the national curriculum and taught to:

• understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
• analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
• evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
• be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

More specifically, the learn about components of a computer system, how to think like computer scientist, how the web works and web page creation, creating animation, using spreadsheets and databases computer programming.

In Year 7 students learn about:

• Introduction to computer systems
• Scratch programming
• Spreadsheets concepts
• E-safety
• Drawing and manipulating shapes

In Year 8 students learn about:

• Programming using Python
• Prototype mobile app development
• Advanced spreadsheet concepts
• Web development using HTML