Year Groups & Key Stages Explained

How content is mapped to KS3 (Years 7–9) and GCSE (Years 10–11).

Computer Quest covers Key Stage 3 Computing (Years 7, 8, and 9) and GCSE Computer Science (Years 10 and 11, OCR specification).

KS3 (Years 7–9)

  • Year 7: baseline computing, e-safety, and an introduction to programming with Scratch.
  • Year 8: networks, data representation, and Python programming.
  • Year 9: advanced Python, algorithms, and GCSE-readiness topics.

GCSE (Years 10–11)

  • Component 1: computer systems, networks, and cyber security.
  • Component 2: computational thinking, programming, and algorithms.
  • Past-paper practice aligned to the OCR specification.

Students see their year group only

Student accounts are scoped to their year group, so they only see the content assigned to them.

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