Years 10 and 11·Schemes of work

GCSE Schemes of Work (SOW)

For heads of department and key stage 4 leads

The two GCSE years, planned as one course. A scheme of work for Year 10 and for Year 11 in each subject below, 51 to 90 pages a book, £4.99 each, or £7.99 for both years of one course together (in science, biology, chemistry and physics are each a course). The first eight pages of every book open on its own page, so a real unit can be read before anything is bought.

Board-neutral, with one exception. Every unit maps to the Department for Education’s GCSE subject content, which AQA, OCR and Pearson Edexcel each have to cover however they order or label it — so a change of board does not mean a change of scheme. History is the exception: it is written lesson by lesson against AQA 8145.

Most departments just call it a SOW, and most staffrooms say “GCSE maths”, “GCSE Art” and “GCSE PE” rather than the full qualification name.