{"id":529,"date":"2025-09-10T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:22:17","slug":"supporting-your-s3-s4-children-with-nationals-business-computing-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/2025\/09\/10\/supporting-your-s3-s4-children-with-nationals-business-computing-science\/","title":{"rendered":": Supporting your S3\/S4 children with Nationals: Business &amp; Computing Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At S3\/S4 our learners are working towards earning their National 4\/5 qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>In S3, our learner\u2019s complete relevant level 4 work with the view to progress to the National 4\/5 courses in S4. In S4 pupils will follow the National 4 or National 5 curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Below is relevant information and helpful resources for Computing Science and Business Management.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Computing Science<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S3 pupils are working through the <strong>Web Design and Development (WDD)<\/strong> unit, building skills in creating effective and functional websites.<\/li>\n<li>S4 pupils are developing their programming abilities within the <strong>Software Design and Development (SDD) <\/strong>unit using Python. This will help pupils learn\u00a0how to design and implement programs to solve problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>SQA Links for Computing:<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/56922.html\">National 4 Computing Science &#8211; SQA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/56923.html\">National 5 Computing Science &#8211; Course overview and resources &#8211; SQA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Computing resources:<\/u>\u00a0<u><br \/>\n<\/u>Achieve:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/achieve.hashtag-learning.co.uk\/\">Achieve<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>BBC Bitesize:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/learn\">Learn and Revise with BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Business &amp; Business Management<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S3 pupils are working through Level 4 <strong>Business contexts<\/strong>, developing knowledge and skills in areas such as enterprise, finance, and the role of business in society.<\/li>\n<li>S4 pupils are focusing on the <strong>Marketing <\/strong>unit, learning how businesses identify, target, and satisfy customer needs while working towards creating effective strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>SQA Links for Business Management: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/47432.html\">National 4 Business &#8211; SQA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/47436.html\">National 5 Business Management &#8211; Course overview and resources &#8211; SQA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Business Resources:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Achieve:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/achieve.hashtag-learning.co.uk\/\">Achieve<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>BBC Bitesize:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/learn\">Learn and Revise with BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope this helps you to support your child no matter the subject within the faculty.<\/p>\n<p>*Information pertaining to Technical will be provided in an upcoming post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At S3\/S4 our learners are working towards earning their National 4\/5 qualifications. In S3, our learner\u2019s complete relevant level 4 work with the view to progress to the National 4\/5 courses in S4. In S4 pupils will follow the National 4 or National 5 curriculum. Below is relevant information and helpful resources for Computing Science &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/2025\/09\/10\/supporting-your-s3-s4-children-with-nationals-business-computing-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;: Supporting your S3\/S4 children with Nationals: Business &amp; Computing Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}