Norbury Manor Girls' High School

The ICT/BS dept has 6 fully equipped specialist rooms, each having a full class set of PCs, a fixed electronic whiteboard with data projector, a colour printer, a black and white laser printer and a scanner.The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Business Faculty offers students a range of stimulating learning opportunities through a variety of courses at Key Stage 4 and 5. As well as practical skills, students develop important skills for the workplace such as planning and organisation of work, problem solving, presentation, identifying client’s needs, producing solutions and evaluating what has been developed.                                                                                                            

ICT at Key Stage 3

Skills learned at Key Stage 3 drive achievement at Key stage 4 and 5. NMBEC aims to make ICT as fun as creative as possible, by allowing students to develop skills that can be used both at home and at work. 
 
As well as traditional ICT skills such as Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Databases there are opportunities for graphics work, website design and video editing. At NMBEC there are many chances for students to use ICT as a creative outlet from exploring Animation in Flash, using graphics software such as Photoshop and making and editing movies in Serif.

ICT/BS Options at Key Stage 4

Students in Years 10 and 11 can choose from the following options within the faculty:

• GCSE Business Studies 
• GCSE Business & Communication Systems
• GCSE ICT
• Level 2 OCR in ICT
• Level 2 NFTE (National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship)

ICT/BS Options at Key Stage 5

• AS/A2 Business Studies
• AS/A2 Applied ICT
• AS/A2 ICT
• AS/A2 Economics

To find out more information about courses running in subject areas within the faculty please use the links on the right hand side of the screen.

Faculty Staff:

Head of Faculty:  Mrs Rendle

Second in Faculty:  Ms V Evans, Mrs S Ingrams

Teachers of BS/ICT:  Miss Allen, Ms Brinkley, Mrs Daplyn, Miss Rafferty, Mrs Scarsbrook

Teaching Assistant:  Miss D Ritchie