Welcome S5 & S6

Welcome back S5/6, we hope you are well rested and raring to go after your exams.

As explained in yesterday’s introduction, the class will be delivered by two teachers at different periods;

  • Mrs Welsh; Software Development and Computer Systems.
  • Mr Stratton; Databases, Web Development, Implications and Media Types.

A course planner will be issued shortly and it is expected we will be using MS Teams this year.

Enjoy your studies and remember you only get out what you put in.

Higher – 2017/2018 Course

There appears to be little bit of confusion among pupils.

The Higher course this year will have Unit Assessments, an Assignment, and Exam. This is unchanged from last year. The Higher pages on this site have the relevent course information.

National 5 – Calculations

  • Size of bitmap = no. of Horizontal pixels X no. of Vertical pixels X Colour Depth
  • No. of pixels = DPI X size in inches

You should also be able to convert from bits, Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes & Terabytes.

  • Bit= 1/0 (Binary digIT)
  • 1 Byte = 8 Bits
  • 1 Kilobytes= 1024 Bytes  (210)
  • 1 Megabytes= 1024 KB  (220)
  • 1 Gigabytes = 1024 MB  (230)
  • 1 Terabytes = 1024 GB  (240)

For colour depth

  • 8 bits = 256 colours (28)
  • 16 bits = High Colour 65,536 colours (216)
  • 24 bits = True Colour 16,777,216 colours (224)

N5 – Easter School

You can find the resources used in this year’s Easter school in the classroom OneDrive area. We will go over them in class as well but I thought you might be lacking for something to do. Enjoy your holidays.