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This year as part of the College’s ex- language, which means it can be
citing new suite of curriculum enrich- used to build a range of digital
ment courses in Year 10 the Computing solutions.
Department were delighted to offer
Designers recognise that Python is
additional programming to selected
great data analysis, artificial intelli-
pupils for one period per week. We de-
gence and scientific computing.
cided to use Python, a general-purpose
Many developers have also used

Over the year two cohorts of pupils
were engaged in a series of tasks un-
der the expert tutelage of
Miss Mettleton. The tasks included
inputting information, introduction to

strings and variables as
well as adding characters.

Computer programming
was really brought to life
for pupils when they
started to programme the
BBC Microbits which ena-
bled them to see immedi-
ately the fruits of their
labour. The pupils really
enjoyed creating faces,
waving hands and arrow
systems using these min-

Python to build productivity tools, iature printed circuit boards.
games, and desktop apps.
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