DIGITAL FUTURES
DIGITAL FUTURES PROGRAMME
With artificial intelligence reshaping classrooms, workplaces, and everyday life, the Kingswood School Digital Futures programme ensures students are confident, critical creators, not just passive consumers of technology. Designed for students in Year 8 and Year 9, the Digital Futures course gives students a head start on skills that, increasingly, employers and universities expect as standard - from AI fluency to data storytelling to digital professionalism.
“Digital Futures isn’t just another ICT lesson — it’s the digital skills curriculum for this generation. Young people don’t need to be told about AI. They need to use it, question it, and learn to stay in charge of their own thinking while they do.” Gareth Edgell Head of Computer Science
DIGITAL FUTURES PROGRAMME DESIGN Across Year 8 and Year 9, pupils will move beyond traditional ICT lessons, developing future ready life skills. The programme will cover four key pillars of AI Literacy: Creative Production
Data Skills
Future Readiness
Online Safety
YEAR 8: FOUNDATIONS
YEAR 9: ADVANCED
Students build a digital identity and portfolio, get hands-on with AI tools, learn core design and presentation skills and understand online safety, misinformation and their digital footprint.
Students explore how large language models actually work, mastering advanced prompt engineering, detecting deepfakes and disinformation, modelling data in spreadsheets, building brand identities, producing video content, and running a multiplatform campaign for a real cause.
ANNUAL PROJECT:
Each year culminates in a final project, with students developing a portfolio of work.
KEY SKILLS DEVELOPED Practical AI literacy
Creative and Design Skills
Data Skills
Critical Thinking
Cybersecurity and Digital Wellbeing
Professional Digital Habits
Using AI assistants safely and effectively, advanced prompt engineering, and recognising the need to fact-check AI output rather than trusting it blindly.
Spreadsheet modelling, what-if analysis, and turning raw data into a compelling story through dashboards.
Password hygiene, phishing awareness, privacy settings, and managing a digital footprint.
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Graphic design, presentation design, brand identity, video production and editing, and accessible, inclusive design.
Spotting misinformation, recognising algorithmic bias, and detecting deepfakes and AI-generated disinformation.
File management, email etiquette, and workplace-ready digital communication.