{"id":23,"date":"2018-05-29T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2018-05-31T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:09:29","slug":"administration-it-national-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/administration-it-national-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Admin &amp; IT &#8211; National 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S3<\/strong><br \/>\nIn S3 pupils receive 3 periods per week building on their existing IT skills.\u00a0 Consolidation and differentiation are key during S3.\u00a0 \u00a0A significant part of this course is practical in nature with pupils using different applications in Microsoft Office.\u00a0 Admin practices theory is also studied.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pupils study:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>word processing (letters, itineraries, forms)<\/li>\n<li>powerpoint<\/li>\n<li>spreadsheets and charting<\/li>\n<li>databases<\/li>\n<li>publisher (business cards, certificates)<\/li>\n<li>e-mail and e-diary<\/li>\n<li>skills, qualities and duties of admin assistants<\/li>\n<li>customer care<\/li>\n<li>health and safety<\/li>\n<li>security of people, information and property<\/li>\n<li>organising\u00a0 events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>S4<\/strong><br \/>\nIf pupils opt to continue this subject in S4 they will start working towards the national level assessments most appropriate to their needs and abilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National 5 Assessment<\/strong><br \/>\nAssessment for National 5 comprises of an Assignment\u00a0 with IT based tasks to be carried out under exam conditions within 3 hours, worth 70 marks.\u00a0 In addition, pupils sit a 2 hour practical exam during the SQA exam diet, worth 50 marks.\u00a0 All assessment is externally marked by SQA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S3 In S3 pupils receive 3 periods per week building on their existing IT skills.\u00a0 Consolidation and differentiation are key during S3.\u00a0 \u00a0A significant part of this course is practical in nature with pupils using different applications in Microsoft Office.\u00a0 Admin practices theory is also studied. Pupils study: word processing (letters, itineraries, forms) powerpoint spreadsheets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/administration-it-national-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Admin &amp; IT &#8211; National 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28120,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademybusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}