Fyling Hall Business students are creating professional looking CVs and more. One part of the GCSE Business curriculum is to look at human resources, how businesses recruit workers, train them and keep them motivated. To try and make this a bit more real, our Y11 students have been writing their CVs after first researching some examples, discussing the pros and cons of each one and choosing a suitable format. They have also created a letter […]

Computing and ICT are constantly evolving – what was once considered futuristic just a few short years ago very quickly becomes the norm and a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. When I first taught A Level IT about 12 years ago, I remember showing the pupils a video about how they would soon be able to look at images on their smartphones and enlarge them using just their fingers. Now this is something we […]

Have you heard of ethical hacking? Read how one of Fyling Hall’s well intentioned students used his desire to keep busy during Lockdown to learn more about an ever-growing sector of computer science. During the holidays one of our Y10 international students, who has only been with us for less than 18 months, contacted me via our remote learning platform, Teams. He asked if I could suggest a free course for him to learn how […]

Many people use ICT and Computer Science interchangeably and, although there are many similarities, there are also differences between them. The website Techopedia quotes Computer Science as being “focused on creating new applications for computers. This means that computer scientists must have a deeper understanding of computers, algorithms, programming languages, theory and so on.”  It goes on to say “Information and communications technology focuses on how to best employ the programs out there, usually for […]