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CreativeTech & TechPro

  • Pre-requisites: TotalTech
  • Course duration: 1 year, 3 terms, 11 lessons each
  • Lesson Length: 80 mins per week
  • Support: Additional FOC prep sessions will be requested if needed
  • Class Size: 4 students + 1 spot for in-class catch-ups
  • Reports: Termly
  • Recognition : FunTech Certification

Achieve more with creative and advanced skills

'FastTrack' CreativeTech and TechPro by learning both courses in one year rather than two. Channel your child’s creative imagination and enable them to create exciting projects. CreativeTech covers advanced graphics, industry-standard animation and website design with HTML. Your child will also learn the full scope of Microsoft 'Office' tools. They will unlock the vast array of actions that will enable them produce high-quality documents in a fraction of the time.

 


  •  Graphics & Word Processing

  •  Animation & Spreadsheets

  •  Website Design & Databases

About this module

Your child will learn both standard and advanced skills to produce vector and bitmaps.

This course also teaches your child to produce high calibre, professional documents in a fraction of the time that they would ordinarily use.

By the end of the term your child will have learnt:

  • The technical difference between a vector and bitmap graphics
  • To create templates, symbols and libraries which make the creation of graphics more efficient
  • About different file formats and what purpose they are best suited
  • The tools required to compose, edit, manipulate and recreate both vector and bitmap graphics
  • To create templates, master documents and macros for repeated use
  • To set-up forms and use equations for mathematical and scientific documents
  • To export and import data to and from other applications
  • To co-author or collaborate with others using a single document
  • How to use the vast array of formatting, short cuts, dictation and translation tools

What your child will learn

GRAPHICS

Vector Graphics:

  • Vector vs. Bitmap
  • Pixels, RGB & Resolution
  • Software Orientation
  • Project Properties & Templates
  • Pen, Paintbrushes, Brush Library, Custom Brushes & Shapes
  • Selection Tools
  • Layers
  • Opacity, Blend Modes & Colour
  • Text (Fonts, TTF Files, Paths & Outlines)
  • Import & Export

Bitmap Graphics:

  • Bitmap vs. Vector
  • DPI (Dots Per Inch) & Resolution
  • Software Orientation
  • Pen, Pencil, Brush, Mixer Brush & Eraser
  • Selection Tools
  • Shapes & Colour Fill
  • Smudge, Blur, Pixelate & Feather
  • Filters & Colour Filters
  • Masking (Transparency, Culling & Colour)
  • Image Repair (Spot Healing, Patch & Healing Brush)
  • Import & Export
WORD PROCESSING
  • Software Orientation
  • Files (Plain Text & Rich Text)
  • Formatting (Style, Paragraph, Justification & Lists)
  • Accessibility (Dictation & Read Aloud)
  • Page Breaks
  • Cover Pages, Headers, Footers, Footnotes & Endnotes
  • Headings, Styles & Table of Contents
  • Tables (Styles, Editing)
  • Adding & Aligning Equations
  • Image Formatting
  • Adding WordArt, Media & Objects
  • Proofing (Comments, Review & Tracking)
  • Mail Merge
  • Translation
  • Developer Ribbon Menu
  • Macros (Record, Edit, Menu, Toolbar, VB for Apps, Import & Export)
  • Captions (Auto & Table of Captions)
  • Figures (Adding & Table of Figures)
  • Citations, Bibliography & Indexes

 

 

Course fee and payment plan

£275.00

(10 payments)

Total cost: £2750

 

Additional fees

Assessment Lesson (credited upon enrolment): £35.00 | Enrolment Fee: £55.00 | Catch up lesson: £35 per lesson

About this module

Your child will learn industry-standard tools and techniques to produce amazing animations, including ‘walk and talk’ cycle.

They will also learn the powerful potential of Excel, starting with the basics and progressing onto advanced concepts. Children undertaking this course will also cover mathematical principles.

By the end of the term your child will have learnt:

  • To create their own animations, including the illusion of 3D movement with layers and parallax
  • To create smooth motion using tweening
  • To sync audio with video, including lip syncing
  • How to create realistic movement of an animated character, using bones and rigging
  • To use a wide variety of formulae (including conditional and nested statements)
  • To write macros for common tasks
  • How to debug and evaluate formulae, including trace dependents and watch windows
  • To analyse results using sorts, filters and conditional formatting
  • To produce visual representations of data, including charts and pivot tables

What your child will learn

ANIMATION
  • Zoetrope (Illusion of Movement)
  • Animation Formats (Hand Drawn, Stop Motion, & Digital)
  • Software Orientation
  • Projects & Layer Orientation
  • Importing Assets
  • Drawing (Paint, Fluid Brushes, Pen & Pencil Shapes)
  • Objects & Symbols
  • Timeline
  • Frames (Keyframes, Frame rate & Animation Types)
  • Tweens (Classic, Shape & Motion)
  • Text (Fonts, Install Fonts & Drawing)
  • Effects (Glow, Blur & Drop Shadow)
  • Colour & Filters
  • Bones (Tool, Properties, Rotation Offsets, Constraints & Pose Keyframes)
  • Rigging (With Bone Tool, Offsets, Constraints & Pose Keyframes)
  • Audio (Adding, Importing, Voice Recording, Non-Synced, Synced & Key Frames)
  • Video (Adding, Importing, Non-Synced & Convert to Symbol)
  • Lip Syncing (Audio Key Frames & Mouth Shapes)
  • 3D (Animate, Transform, Parallax & Layer Depth Panel)
  • Frame by Frame (Onion Skinning, On 2's & Smear)
  • Loops (Start, End & Smooth Repeats)
  • Exporting
SPREADSHEETS
  • Software Orientation
  • Workbook & Worksheet (Navigation, Selection, Insert, Delete, Rename, Move, Copy, Protect, Colour & Hide/Unhide)
  • Rows & Columns (Width, Height, Insert, Delete, Hide, Align & Merge)
  • Cell (Pointers, References, Enter Data & Clear Data)
  • Formatting & Conditional Formatting
  • Find, Replace & Comments
  • AutoFill
  • Ranges (Select & Name)
  • BODMAS (Brackets, Order, Division, Multiplication, Addition & Subtraction)
  • Formula (Entering, Formats, Relative vs. Absolute, AutoFill & Copy/Paste Values)
  • Functions (Mathematical, Text & Conditional)
  • Sorting & Filters
  • Data Validation & Dropdown Lists
  • VLookup, HLookup & Pivot Table
  • Errors (Trace Precedents/Dependents, Checking, Evaluate Formula, Remove Arrows, Show Formula & Watch Window)
  • Macros (Record, Edit & Assign)
  • Borders (Styles & Apply)
  • Charts & Stats
  • Export

 

 

Course fee and payment plan

£275.00

(10 payments)

Total cost: £2750

 

Additional fees

Assessment Lesson (credited upon enrolment): £35.00 | Enrolment Fee: £55.00 | Catch up lesson: £35 per lesson

About this module

This course will teach your child how to design, code, and publish interactive websites.

Technical, analytical and creative skills will be developed as they learn how to use HTML to create website structures, style them using CSS, make them interactive using JavaScript and publish using FTP, plus more.

Your child will also learn about databases, used to store large amounts of data in an organised and logical manner - making it easy to access, analyse, and manage.

Using industry-standard software your child will learn how to build a well-designed relational database, that delivers information consistency, eliminates data redundancy and interrogate the data using SQL filters and logical operators.


What your child will learn

WEB DESIGN with HTML
  • HTML File Structure
  • Software Orientation
  • HTML Elements, Tags & Attributes
  • Comments
  • Hyperlinks
  • Lists (Numbers & Bullets)
  • Embedding
  • What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
  • In Page CSS & External CSS File
  • Colour (Foreground, Background & Hexadecimal)
  • Font (Family, Style, Weight)
  • Borders (Style, Colour, Size & Radius), Paddings & Margins
  • Block & Inline Elements
  • Container Elements (Division & Span)
  • Style Inheritance
  • Classes
  • Floating Style
  • Carousels
  • Forms (Text, Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Drop Down Boxes & Submit Buttons)
  • JavaScript
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
DATABASES
  • Data vs. Information
  • Database Structure
  • Software Orientation
  • Creating Tables & Fields
  • Import Data
  • Insert, Update, Select & Delete
  • Simple Search, Multiple Data Fields & Where
  • Min, Max, AND, OR, NOT, Count, Sum, Average & Concatenation
  • Distinct, Order By, Group By Wildcards & Like
  • Data Redundancy
  • Relational Database
  • Entity Relationship Diagrams
  • Primary Key & Foreign Keys
  • Left Join

 

 

Course fee and payment plan

£275.00

(10 payments)

Total cost: £2750

 

Additional fees

Assessment Lesson (credited upon enrolment): £35.00 | Enrolment Fee: £55.00 | Catch up lesson: £35 per lesson

Virtual learning, real results

 

We’re redefining the way children learn by using the latest virtual tools. Our state-of-the-art virtual learning platform enables tutor-led home study through innovative business-grade tools.

Your child can log in from anywhere and attend scheduled lessons using virtual tools to communicate with their tutor and class friends.

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The FunTech Methodology

 

A learning
journey

 

We assess each child as an individual and recommend a tailored tech learning path that will enable them to unlock their full potential. 

Designed
to engage

 

Engagement and technology are at the core of our teaching strategies, with small class sizes guided by technology subject specialists.

Curriculum
is the key

 

We have a structured, project-based curriculum that’s continuously refined by our in-house development team to keep it ahead of the curve.

Virtual learning,
real results

 

Using a state-of-the-art virtual learning platform, we deliver tutor-led classes in real-time with a 1:4 tutor student ratio.

FAQs

What does a virtual class mean?

A virtual class is a scheduled interactive online lesson delivered by FunTech.

All our virtual software is Citrix driven and so extremely safe

How does the virtual class work?

All students receive a virtual orientation lesson before the start of their course.

For each lesson, your child will receive an email invitation containing a link allowing them to log onto our virtual classroom. We schedule a maximum of four students who are predominately based in the UK, however, a few of our students have moved abroad due to parents work commitments and therefore log in from further afield.

The lessons themselves are the exact same as is delivered in a physical classroom. Through our virtual classroom environment, your child has the option to raise their hand, ask questions and also speak to the other students in their class (though we do have a mute all option '- just in case!)

FunTech teachers are able to pass control of their monitor to an individual student or share it amongst all the students. With permission, we can take control of a students' monitor to demonstrate concepts, share common mistakes or outstanding work as we would in a physical classroom.

All our virtual software is Citrix driven and so extremely safe

What do we need to join a virtual class?

Good internet connection, headphones with a microphone and a computer.

All our virtual software is Citrix driven and so extremely safe

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