Python Programming at Christmas 2025 GCSE Edition

A fun, festive, end-of-term coding activity with exam style questions

Bring some Christmas cheer to your final Computer Science lessons of the term with this engaging, ready to use Python coding worksheet. Designed for general GCSE level learners, this resource blends fun festive programming tasks with light exam style questions to keep students learning while enjoying the final week of term.

Perfect for cover lessons, independent practice, or a festive coding challenge.

What’s Included?

• A fully self-contained Word Document Worksheet, featuring:
• Six Christmas-themed Python programming tasks, including:
• Festive Greeting & ASCII Tree
• Personalised Digital Christmas Card
• Santa’s Nice List Checker
• Snowstorm Pattern Generator
• Christmas Present Budget Calculator
• Christmas Quiz Game extension challenge
• Exam style questions (multiple choice, short answers, pseudocode, construct identification) woven into the tasks to reinforce learning.

Key Features

• Perfect for end-of-term lessons, fun, low-stress, and highly engaging.
• Fully self-contained, no preparation needed and suitable for teacher led or independent work.
• Exam style challenges included to reinforce GCSE level understanding of programming constructs, debugging, pseudocode, data types, and logic.
• Supports Python skills development in a festive, student-friendly way.
• Ideal for both specialist and non specialist teachers, and excellent for cover lessons.

Who is this resource for?

• GCSE Computer Science students looking for a fun final lesson activity
• Teachers needing a festive, low prep coding worksheet
• Cover teachers requiring something structured, engaging, and curriculum-relevant
• Clubs or enrichment sessions during December