Posted on: 19/07/2019CONGRATULATIONS TO SOPHIE KIRKBY-TOMSWell done to Sophie Kirkby-Toms in Year 9 for earning enough points to claim her Bronze award for the Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA). This is an international programme aiming to help address the digital skills gap. The programme provides free digital skills education in the form of engaging online modules (badges). The iDEA curriculum has been curated to help inspire people all over the world to become Digital Citizens, Workers, Makers, Entrepreneurs and Gamers to enhance their employability; and to help them become economically active. To achieve the Bronze Award, learners need to earn 250 points, including a minimum of 40 points in each of the core categories of the curriculum: Citizen, Worker, Maker and Entrepreneur. Congratulations to Sophie on all her hard work and we look forward to her receiving her Bronze Award.
Posted on: 19/07/2019CYBER DISCOVERYCyber Discovery, the Government’s Cyber Schools Programme is an important part of the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy, providing young people with an opportunity to begin the journey towards an exciting and challenging career in a field that is facing a significant shortage of trained professionals. The programme is made up of four phases, Assess, Game, Essentials and Elite, all of which involve challenges, tasks and games designed to improve student’s cyber security knowledge. The objectives of the program are to expose as many students as possible to the field of cyber security, even those who had not considered Computing or STEM subjects as an interest and to give as many students as possible the opportunity to have a go at the challenges in Cyber Discovery. Cyber Discovery opens in September 2019 and further information will be emailed to students when it is available.
Posted on: 19/07/2019
