Welcome To
ICT at Haybrook College
Our vision is to equip students with the skills and knowledge to be functional in society and adept at effectively communicating, interpreting basic data and being able to create information digitally so that they can fill the desired skill set of the local labour market (digital sector) as well as meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.
Our offering consists of the Digital Functional Skills as well as the final year of Functional Skills in ICT for our current Year 11 only. We use modern pedagogy in lifting student engagement by dynamic teaching and learning strategies that make learning fun and interesting. This includes using virtual teams to give feedback/marking to students, setting targets and monitoring student progress by using a skills based format and project based learning approach to tasks that are both differentiated and scaffolded for the needs of our learners. There is an opportunity to visit a new data centre in Slough so young people can begin to understand how supercomputers process large data used by apps on millions of peoples’ hand held mobile devices.
The UK is poised to be the digital capital of Europe The digital sector is a major source of employment in the UK, with 1.46 million people working in digital companies and around 45,000 digital jobs advertised at any one time. Digital skills span all industries; almost all jobs in the UK today require employees to have a good level of digital literacy.
The Pearson Edexcel Digital Functional Skills Qualification at Entry Level 3 will enable learners to initiate and participate in digital and online activities safely in the workplace and other real-life contexts. At this level, Digital Functional Skills qualifications should:
- enable learners to gain confidence and fluency in their use of digital knowledge and skills, and develop a positive attitude towards the use of digital skills
- enable learners to develop an appreciation of the importance of digital skills in the workplace and in life generally
- enable learners to demonstrate their knowledge and skills by applying these to complete tasks and activities
- provide a basis for further study, work and life.
The Pearson Edexcel Digital Functional Skills Qualification at Level 1 will enable learners to initiate and participate in digital and online activities safely in the workplace and in other real-life contexts. At this level, Digital Functional Skills qualifications should:
- enable learners to increase their confidence and fluency in their use of digital knowledge and skills, and develop a positive attitude towards the use of digital skills
- enable learners to demonstrate their knowledge and skills by applying these to complete tasks and activities
- introduce learners to areas of life and work which may be new or unfamiliar, and tasks and activities that they may encounter in future
- enable learners to develop an appreciation of the importance of digital skills in the workplace and in life generally