Building digital futures: Pupils earn bronze and silver iDEA awards

Bronze and Silver awards were presented to our pupils who have successfully mastered the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Awards (known as iDEA) programme.

This award-winning programme helps pupils develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free.

iDEA has five learning categories – Citizen, Worker, Maker, Entrepreneur and Gamer. The digital badges are short modules which can be completed anytime online and pupils pick up points towards gaining Bronze, Silver and Gold iDEA Awards.

Year 7 Alex said: “I got a Bronze Award. It was interesting as I learned about coding, programme animation and more. I was quite determined to get it.”

Year 7 Sravani, who also collected the Bronze Award, said: “I think it’s great. I have learnt such a lot such as coding. I think it will help a lot in the future as it encourages you learn more about job interviews.”

Year 9 Alex said: “I enjoyed it. I did it in my own time and it wasn’t too stressful. It contrasts enough with homework to make it different. There are lots of random parts such as a colour wheel, information on interviewing and how things work. I want to get to the Gold Award.”

Year 9 Shivam collected his Silver Award. He said: “I am a competitive person so I wanted to do my Bronze and Silver as quickly as possible. I worked on it after school, in the evening. It does take a while but it’s worth it.”

Jacob also earned a Silver Award, saying: “It wasn’t too difficult although there was a lot of information to read. I like it as it’s interactive.”

Naeem also collected his Silver Badge. He said: “It was easy but time-consuming. There were a lot of different skills such as entrepreneurship, citizenship and coding and more so I learnt quite a bit.”

iDEA is introduced to Key Stage 3 pupils in their Computing lessons. Once the pupils have registered, it’s independent study. Year 10 and 11 pupils can complete the programme outside of their lesson time. Pupils can also work on their award during Computing Club.

See ICT and Computing teacher Miss Gregson for more information.  Parents can find out more about the award here >> https://idea.org.uk/