Introduction to Python specifically aimed at new users in year 9. There are 5 lessons on a separate PPT, with LO, bronze silver gold outcomes and homelearning activity on each. Then there is a test lesson. The focus is to drill down variable names, to call variables, to use a tuple, then compare that with the use of an indexed list. These could easily be added to for challenge in years 10 and even year 11. Unfortunately I can't add the Python script for lesson 2 - insult generator, but the script is on a slide so can easily be typed in.

More than 70 pages of revision notes. The whole Edexcel course broken down in note form. There is a contents page for easy access too. Special offer for the exam this week!

From absolute beginner. These could be used as solutions (given as problems to solve). Or used to copy code and annotate. Or even 'broken' and used as debugging tasks. The scripts all have a Christmas theme to keep learners engaged for the run up to Christmas. The skills / constructs included are: Using strings If, then else Tuples Import time Import webbrowser Maths Append to list Sub routines While loops For loops Sorting Concatenation Casting You will use this invaluable resource with different scenarios over and over again! Enjoy - and merry Christmas to you!

This is a 6 week SOW which introduces learners to the concept of abstraction, pseudocode writing, and then flowcharting, with examples, and easy to follow PowerPoints with activities to deepen learning. Abstraction, pseudocode, flowchart, create, debug, improve is given as a cycle for learning programming. Lessons 4 5 and 6 are about creating a step by step Fifa football game with challenges at the end. There are differentiation tasks throughout the sow.

This PowerPoint contains 12 lessons of Python programming. It starts with the usual 'hello world', then takes the learner on a journey through importing time, adding delays, concatenation, key words/variables. It has been organised as Python scripts that the learner opens, presses F5 to see what it does, then follows the #comments in the coding. However, TES won't allow scripts to be uploaded, so I have screen dumped them on the slides. If you would like the scripts after purchasing, please contact me and I can email them. The lessons end with a taster of what is required at Edexcel GCSE level for part of the coding task, where instructions are printed, and repeated back with delays. I also have a year 8 set which focus on 2 terms learning IF, and ELIF. Year 9 focussing on FOR and WHILE loops. Year 10 on past NEA work. These will be available soon. My learners were completely engaged by having the script started for them - less daunting than opening a blank coding page in Python, and not having a clue where to start. I hope yours enjoy this resource of a term's work as much as mine did.

It can be difficult to think up new ideas for coding, and embedding skills. Have the benefit of my 10 years teaching coding with this resource. After you have taught the content of PLS 1 and 2, give the learners these 11 challenges to get their teeth into. I have included a teacher file with suitable answers for each. You could add to the learner file with more hints, or take away the hints I have given. Skills tested that will prepare them for the coding examination: IF, concatenation, iteration, tuples, constants, variables, write to file, sub routines, functions, global variables and much more.

I put together this pack aimed mainly at KS3, and as the Esafety Officer at my Academy. The pack includes lessons on hoaxes, keeping personal data safe, live streaming and reputation, gaming addiction, and bullies/ trolls. All have been made with regard to the new KCSIE recommendations. There is a powerpoint for each lesson, chance for discussion, and different tasks each lesson to embed the knowledge. These lessons have been delivered as a half term full unit, and have also been delivered in the PSHEE last year, as the last lesson before a half term, thereby lasting for one year.

Fabulous presentation for a 2 or 3 week Python project. The idea is that they use IF to make a multiple choice quiz (code examples given). Learners are immediately engaged by following a flow chart, and describing what the diagram does. They then have to alter some pseudocode to come up with the first question for their quiz, using IF a,b,c,d etc. The coding ramps up with scoring, and using ELIF. More competent users are challenged to use a main menu, with sub routines so the end user can choose which quiz they would like to do. Then super human coders can learn how to read and write text files to record the leaderboard. To do this, they must look at the coding for Edexcel Fixture NEA from 2017 (please email me for the files if you don't have them (annemariebradshaw@Hotmail.com). There is also a link to a great independent learning site for Python skills. The presentation includes LO, outcomes, 2 extended learning (hwk) tasks, peer assessment with the focus given on a worksheet, and practice debugging with a sabotage task (which really gets them digging into the code in the most devious of ways :-). Fabulous differentiation got these lessons 'outstanding' on a LW and LO. Feedback from the kids was that they loved working at their own pace, and developing something personal to them. Great stuff!

This is a half term's work on gaining skills for the new 9-1 Edexcel computer science course. Based upon the new Crawdale NEA, it focusses mainly on reading and writing to text files. It includes practice of splitting text files up, and concatenating to create memberID. Sub routines, and practice creating menus with IF statements is also brought in, but more as a practice, than explicitly as lessons. There is a test in week 6, and a mark scheme based on 9-1. Anyone wishing to use Crawdale NEA SAM material would find this a very useful learning tool to begin with. It has been aimed at high ability year 9, or low ability year 10.

This half a term worth of lessons cover: error types data types relational databases test Each lesson begins with the basic concepts, then adds until they are at GCSE level. Students have been very engaged with this work.

This is a week's work, and cover all of the topics in Edexcel GCSE ICT. There are past papers, with mark scheme, results plus, and examiner reports, with just the questions on that particular topic. These are accompanied by a pre-test revision PowerPoint, and a whistle stop tour of the topics. Each one contains a link to a Kahoot to add some fun into the lessons. The topics are: Connectivity Digital Devices Issues Social networking Online services Operating online Everything you need for revision from now until the exam.

This is a whole half term of work relating to the questions appearing in the second Computer Science paper. The lessons are on input, processing, output selection statements boundary testing recognising constructs trace tables a test The lessons guide the learner from easy to understand exercises, to GCSE level exercises. There is a learning question focus for each lesson, but in some cases the bronze silver and gold outcomes have been left blank for you to tailor to your classes. There is enough work here for a half term.

Eleven computer science lessons which combine theory with practical Python programming skills. All contain clear lesson objectives, outcomes, tasks, questions, homework. This has been used as a whole term SOW successfully in KS4. Three of the lessons have been observed as outstanding. There are revision notes in Word, and a scored mock examination paper testing the LOs.