Large GCSE Periodic Table Wall Poster – Clear From the Back of the Room
I was fed up with no periodic tables matching the GCSE periodic table and being clear from across the classroom so I made my own!
A bold, colour-coded periodic table poster designed for GCSE Chemistry and readable from the back of the room.
It uses the same layout and data as the GCSE exam data sheet, so students get used to the table they’ll see in their exams. Every box shows the relative atomic mass, symbol, name and atomic number, and the lanthanides and actinides are left out.
Features
What’s on the poster
• Large, bold symbols and numbers: symbols are 1.8 cm tall at A1
• Colour-coded families: alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, other metals, other non-metals, halogens and noble gases
• Symbols coloured by state at room temperature: solid (black), liquid (blue) and gas (red)
• Outer-shell electrons shown as dots on each group label
• Clear Group 1–7 and 0 labels, and Period 1–7 labels
• Metal / non-metal dividing line
• Diatomic elements outlined, with a simple two-atom diagram
• Labelled key showing how to read each element box
• Up-to-date element names, including nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson
What’s included
• A4 PDF – for handouts, desk copies or exercise books
• A1 PDF (841 × 594 mm) and A0 PDF (1189 × 841 mm), print-ready at full size
• Blank version with no support for tests (exam style
• Step-by-step instructions for printing at A1 or A0 on a normal school printer, in pieces on A4 or A3, then joined together
Vector files, so the poster stays sharp at any size.
**Instructions for Printing
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Open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader and go to File → Print.
Choose a colour printer and A4 or A3 paper. (A3 easier)
Click Poster, set Tile scale: 100% and Overlap: 10 mm, and tick Cut marks and Labels.
Print.
Lay the sheets out using their labels and trim along the cut marks.
Overlap the sheets so the design lines up and tape them together from the back. You can glue if you don’t trim the borders.



