This unit follows on nicely from any scratch unit you might teach early on in KS3. This introduces students nicely to the key programming constructs of programming using Python. What better way to engage students than to allow them to build their own games. Each lesson guides them through the game making process step by step highlighting the programming construct in use. At the end of every lesson they have an opportunity to tweak or change their game to thier own preferences. A highly engaging unit of work for students

An excellent revision tool for students to revise the current digital world they live in. Split into categories to make it easier to revise.

A full set of matching Computing career posters. Full range of jobs including up to date jobs, salaries, duties and entry requirements.

This simple and easy to use calculator allows you to input what points each student has achieved on each unit of work. It calculate up from there what their current overall grade will be. Each unit has a different weighting, which the calculator takes into account. A very powerful tool to help make accurate predications for data and reports. Allows you to show ‘what if’ scenarios to students and talk about minimum grades required in each element. Useful tool to keep track of mock achievements too. To use the tool, you just enter points into the light yellow shaded cells. The rest will automatically generate.

Motivational postcards especially suitable for year 11 pupils. Nice to hand write personal messages on the back particularly before their final exams.

Keywords for display whilst working on a PowerPoint unit of work

Fully detailed SOW for the PowerPoint unit, including assessment criteria

Full 8 lessons worth of teacher PowerPoints for the delivery of a PowerPoint unit for KS3. The unit of work teaches them how to use PowerPoint effectively, including, text, images, design, charts and how to prepare outputs such as speaker notes, handouts or full slides. Great unit of work for ticking SMSC criteria. This unit encourages a pupil to investigate a country of their choice, including their cultures, beliefs, religions, language, places of interest, location etc etc. Lots of great starters built in developing maths skills in relation to the topics, such as time differences, currency exchange rates etc.

Keystage 3 resource, ideal for teaching pupils skills in Python Leads on from my other resource Random Numbers in Python Allows pupils to learn skill and embed. Solutions included in presentation Learning objectives, differentiated, active starter to get pupils engaged and embed learning.

Keystage 3 resource to enable pupils to learn skills in Python. This resource is ideal for year 7 or pupils seeing Python for the first time. Very simple to follow, lots of skills learnt and embedded. Solutions included.

Ideal for extra curricular activities Series of tutorials to create a maze game. Tutorials are aimed at year 7-8. I used them as an after school club. They really engage pupils and get them talking excitedly about programming. Builds skills and confidence with very little work required from a teacher. All tutorials are exactly step by step with lots of print screens for the pupils to be able to follow independently. Pupils can work independently through the tutorials to create a game with 2 levels. Once the two levels are completed they have all the skills to build a game of however many levels they want.

Final lesson in unit of work. This time introducing the use of variables to make code more efficient. Fully differentiated using Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. A PowerPoint presentation to follow throughout the lesson, hosting starter, learning objective, individual tasks, plenary.

Fully differentiated homework, asking pupils to write sequences of instructions. Bronze, Silver, Gold differentiation. Build on following lesson importance of writing instructions clearly and precisely. Introduce word algorithm

This lesson follows on from the previous 2. Pupils now know how to draw a range of shapes in Python. They now take a look at making their code more efficient through the use of while loops and variables. Fully differentiated resource using bronze, silver, gold, and platinum.

This lesson teaches pupils how to draw a variety of circles and polygons using code in Python It adds in the use of colour changing the outline colour and the fill colour. Very interactive lesson, contains collaborative learning strategy, individual work and computer work. Differentiated lesson including bronze, silver, gold and platinum learning objectives and tasks throughout. Teacher notes included at the bottom of each slide on delivery ideas and how each slide should / could be delivered. Extension ideas differentiated at end of lesson before lesson review of learning.

A PowerPoint to take your through the first lesson of creating Art in Python. This lesson teaches pupils how to draw a square in code Ideal as a year 7 or year 8 unit of work Gets pupils to think about the importance of creating exact instructions for a computer. Includes, individual work, a group activity working out whose commands will be correct, a kinaesthetic activity allowing pupils to give instructions to another pupil to guide them through mini assault course set up in classroom. Activity set up getting pupils to import turtle module and to begin drawing basic shapes. A challenge slide included for higher ability pupils. All work differentiated with bronze, silver, gold and platinum learning objectives. Contains teacher notes upon how to deliver each slide

Detailed lesson plan including all instructions, questions, tasks for a full lesson on how to insert a table into HTML. Lesson 5 in the scheme of HTML lessons produced. Answers included within PowerPoint alongside ideas for delivery Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum differentiation Extensions tasks included at end for higher ability pupils