Bespoke, fully editable lesson for AQA GCSE Computer Science (8525): AQ1.46 Programming practice: planning a solution. Slides, worksheet and full answers.
Written for Paper 1 Computational thinking and programming skills, section 3.1 Fundamentals of algorithms (spec 3.1.1.2, 3.1.1.4, 3.2.10.7). Everything is editable, so you can adapt it to your class.
What’s included- PowerPoint lesson (14 slides) with teacher notes on every slide
- Student worksheet (Word), ready to print or edit
- Answer sheet (Word) with mark-scheme style answers for every question
By the end of the lesson students can:
- Follow a systematic approach from a problem statement to tested code
- Decompose a problem into subroutines with clear interfaces
- Write parts of the design as a flowchart, AQA pseudo-code and Python
Worksheet sections: A. Key words; B. Understand the problem; C. Decompose and design; D. Exam-style questions; E. Challenge
Every lesson includes- Learning goals and a starter question
- Clear explanations, diagrams and worked examples (Python 3 throughout, with AQA pseudo-code alongside so students can read exam algorithms)
- A quick check and a “your turn” task linked to the worksheet
- Exam-style questions with marks, and an exit ticket
- PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx), fully editable
- Works in PowerPoint and Google Slides
- Bright, clear GCSE design, consistent across the whole course
These are independent resources written for the AQA GCSE Computer Science specification (8525, version 1.3), for exams from 2027. They are not produced or endorsed by AQA. Spec point numbers are our own numbering of the specification statements.
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