Years 10 and 11·GCSE schemes of work

GCSE Psychology scheme of work

For heads of department and GCSE psychology teachers

Both GCSE years planned as one course: the Year 10 Psychology Scheme of Work and the Year 11 Psychology Scheme of Work, 68 to 85 pages a book, £5.99 each or £9.99 for the pair. The first eight pages of each book open on its own page, so a real unit can be read before anything is bought.

Board-neutral. Both books are planned from the Department for Education’s GCSE subject content, which AQA, Pearson Edexcel and OCR each have to cover however they order it.

The two years, unit by unit

Year 10

1a Memory: What You Remember, and What You Rebuild
1b Development: How a Mind Changes, and What Changes It
2a Social Influence: Why People Do What the Room Is Doing
2b Research Methods I: Planning It, and Collecting the Evidence

Year 11

3a Psychological Problems: Classification, Explanation and What Helps
3b The Brain and Neuropsychology: How a Gap Becomes a Behaviour
4a Perception, and Language, Thought and Communication
4b Research Methods II, the Debates, and Final Preparation

Also in each book

Year 10

Curriculum map
What the Department requires, and where Year 10 does it
Marking load
Retrieval and spacing
The three assessment objectives, and how they are built
The research-methods spine
The five core areas, and where Year 10 meets each
Appendix A, and where Year 10 meets each line
How we know it worked
The studies this book names, and what each one is for
Teaching psychology safely: what to tell your pastoral lead, and when
Before September: five decisions to make first
Teaching this without a psychology background
Sources, and how to check anything in this book
Where every requirement is taught
What varies between boards — check these locally
Which paper examines what
How the three boards assess it
Misconceptions, all in one place
Psychological contexts used this year

Year 11

Curriculum map
What the Department requires, and where Year 11 does it
Marking load
Retrieval and spacing
The three assessment objectives, and how they are built
The research-methods spine, completed
Paragraph 11, and where this course actually meets it
The five core areas, and where the two years meet each
Appendix A, across the two years
The final phase, week by week
How we know it worked
Before unit 3a: the conversation to have, and the rules that hold
The studies this book names, and what each one is for
Substituting a topic or a condition: what changes, and what does not
Before September: five decisions for the second year
Teaching this without a psychology background
Sources, and how to check anything in this book
Where every requirement is taught, across both years
What varies between boards — check these locally
Which paper examines what
How the three boards assess it
Misconceptions, all in one place
Psychological contexts used across the course

Year 10 and Year 11, together or one at a time

68 to 85 pages a book · first 8 pages open here

Psychology · GCSE (Key Stage 4) £5.99

Year 10 Psychology Scheme of Work

Sixty-eight pages, board-neutral by construction: the core is the Department’s own subject content, and every week is tagged for one of Ofqual’s three assessment objectives (identical on all three boards at 35%, 35% and 30%). Four half-termly units, four purpose-drawn diagrams and a coverage matrix that places every requirement across both years. The design decision is research methods: Ofqual requires it to carry at least a fifth of the marks and to be assessed across all three objectives, so it runs as a spine through every unit rather than waiting for a half-term of its own.

GCSE subject content: psychology (DfE, DFE-00213-2015) and Ofqual’s GCSE subject level conditions for psychology · 68 pages, 24 sections ·For heads of psychology, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Psychology · GCSE (Key Stage 4) £5.99

Year 11 Psychology Scheme of Work

Eighty-five pages completing the course: psychological problems, the brain and neuropsychology, two optional topics, and a closing unit that judges reliability, validity and ethics against the research plans students built in Year 10. Four purpose-drawn diagrams and a two-year coverage matrix. The clinical unit is written to be substituted — depression is the one condition all three specifications set, so the second half swaps without touching the other six weeks — and it carries a full page on what to tell your pastoral lead, and when.

GCSE subject content: psychology (DfE, DFE-00213-2015) and Ofqual’s GCSE subject level conditions for psychology · 85 pages, 27 sections ·For heads of psychology, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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GCSE Psychology set

Year 10, Year 11 — the whole key stage, sequenced as one curriculum rather than two separate years.

£9.99 £11.98 bought separately

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