I'm Mrs D. I've been teaching Psychology for over 10 years. I work at an outstanding school, recently rated number 1 state school in the South West.
During my time teaching, I have progressed to Head of Social Sciences, examined for AQA and tutored students.
I have used my experience to curate resources to ensure my students excell in Psychology A Level and want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student I hope you will enjoy using my resources and find them helpful.
Mrs D
I'm Mrs D. I've been teaching Psychology for over 10 years. I work at an outstanding school, recently rated number 1 state school in the South West.
During my time teaching, I have progressed to Head of Social Sciences, examined for AQA and tutored students.
I have used my experience to curate resources to ensure my students excell in Psychology A Level and want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student I hope you will enjoy using my resources and find them helpful.
Mrs D
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 2 - Biopsychology
Topic Workbook - Activities / summary grids etc to fill in for the biopsychology topic.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what is important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Workbook: This document contains:
Space to make notes on the whole of the topic
Evaluation grids to fill in to summarise your key evaluative points
Spaces for all of the key studies to help you know which are important and where they could fit
It follows the evaluation structure you are used to from my other resources. Using this structure means all evaluation points have been carefully unpicked for you so you can fully sustain all of your evaluation points.
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration - how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
This resource is best used with my Full Topic Notes / Glossary of Key Terms and Key Study List, as the detail in these will help you fill in the work book with ease. (You can buy all of these in my store).
If you’ve got an open evening coming up you might be wondering how to prepare or what you could offer to those prospective parents. You might already have some resources and be looking for extra activities to put out.
Here is my pack of open evening resources, which I’ve used for years. They always help me ensure prospective students are persuaded to take psychology.
I’ve included the resources i use for Sociology too as I know many people teach both but these are easily deleted if you don’t need them. Similarly you may need to change a year 2 module or two, if you don’t study the same three as our students do.
In the bundle is:
My door signs
Six interactive activities to put around your classroom (this always gives the room a real buzz and helps keep visitors interested and busy while they wait to speak to the teacher.)
A rolling ppt to put on the board for prospective parents and students to read. (you could amend this to add your dept results / entry requirements).
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, (who has examined and tutored), I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
If you’ve got an open evening coming up you might be wondering how to prepare or what you could offer to those prospective parents. You might already have some resources and be looking for extra activities to put out.
Here is my pack of open evening resources, which I’ve used for years. They always help me ensure prospective students are persuaded to take Sociology.
I’ve included some resources I use for Psychology too as I know many people teach both but these are easily deleted if you don’t need them. Similarly you may need to change a module or two, if you don’t study the same as our students do.
In the bundle is:
My door signs / corridor signs
All of the interactive activities to put around your classroom (this always gives the room a real buzz and helps keep visitors interested and busy while they wait to speak to the teacher.)
A rolling ppt to put on the board for prospective parents and students to read. (you could amend this to add your dept results / entry requirements etc).
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, (who has examined and tutored), I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Excel document set up for you to start tracking all student work.
You can:
Log student names, targets and teaching groups
Identify if students fit in key groups such as SEND or if they have exam access arrangements
Track homework completion
Track folder checks
Log grades from quizzes, tests and mocks.
This spreadsheet does all the hard work of tracking for you, I’ve sorted the formulas and conditional formatting so that you can just input the raw test scores and it will work out most of the hard work for you.
For example:
If you input a score on a test, it will work out the percentage and what this is as a grade (for this it is set to use the harshest AQA Psychology grade boundaries - but you could easily change these to any boundaries you want to use e.g. another subject’s grade boundaries).
It will work out if the student is on, above or below target in each test. It will then colour code this for you so you can visually see if students are on target easily.
When you enter a student as not submitting a homework it will also colour code this orange to enable you to see clearly patterns in missed homework.
As a bonus tab I’ve included a tracker to enable you to remember which tests have been set. I use this whenever I set a past paper. This means I never accidentally set the same test twice.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology AS Level - Paper 2 - Biopsychology
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.
For AQA Psychology AS and A Level - All Papers
It is important when revising to make sure you know everything on the specification and that you don’t miss anything. If your notes are messy and you worry you have gaps or if you’ve missed content (or even if you have everything but want to double check), then these checklists are for you.
They take you step by step through each unit to make sure you know exactly what is covered and can be asked about.
they also have space for you to check you have understood and revised the content so you can use them actively when revising.
Never miss any content again with these full topic checklists.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 3 - Relationships
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plans - A List of possible 16 Mark questions and sample planning sheets.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 16 mark question on each area of the unit. It then has a blank essay grid next to each of these so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 1 - Cognitive Psychology - Memory
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plans - A List of possible 12/16 Mark questions and sample planning sheets.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 16 mark question on each area of the unit. It then has a blank essay grid next to each of these so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 1 - Developmental Psychology - Attachment
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plans - A List of possible 12/16 Mark questions and sample planning sheets.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 16 mark question on each area of the unit. It then has a blank essay grid next to each of these so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 3 - Relationships
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 2 - Biopsychology
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 2 - Research Methods
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 notes on Research Methods
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 3 - Relationships
All of my Relationships resources. This Bundle includes all of the documents you need to succeed in the Relationships topic.
Including:
Full topic notes
Work booklet
Glossary of key terms
List of key studies
Printable key study flashcards
List of possible 16 mark questions (with grids to complete)
Samples of past paper questions with mark schemes and examiners’ reports
Topic checklist
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent compiled exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what is important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created these resources to help you know what to learn for this topic.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 1 - Cognitive Psychology - Memory
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.
For AQA Psychology AS Level - Paper 2 - Research Methods
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Glossary - All the key terms students need to know. (One copy filled in with definitions and a blank copy).
Sample Paper and Mark Scheme for students to practise.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
This download contains three documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains one paper made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 1 - Cognitive Psychology - Memory
Key Study List - A list of all the key studies in the topic.
Key Study Cards - A detailed revision flashcard that you can print for each study.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Students often struggle learning the many studies they need to refer to in Psychology. This resource aims to help students know which studies to learn, and then acts as a useful resource for learning them.
This download contains two items:
Key Study List: This document contains a list of all the key studies referred to in the Full Notes of the memory topic (can be downloaded separately). After each study is a quick summary of the study which will be useful for questions asking you how a study was done.
Key Study Cards: This document is a set of cards, designed to be printed back to back and cut up to make flash cards. The key studies selected match those on the Full Notes document. Each study card has details on the aim, procedure, results and evaluation of the study and a handy image to jog students’ memory.
For AQA Psychology AS Level - Paper 2 - Biopsychology
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plan - A List of possible 12/16 Mark questions and sample planning sheet.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 12/ 16 mark question. It then has a blank essay grid next to this so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology A Level
This tracker has every 6,8 and 16 mark question asked at A Level for the new specification.
This allows you to see the patterns in questions that are asked and also to identify the gaps.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 3 - Addiction
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plans - A List of possible 16 Mark questions and sample planning sheets.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 16 mark question on each area of the unit. It then has a blank essay grid next to each of these so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 1 - Psychopathology
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.