Pearson Edexcel GCSE Computer Science (2020)
Computer Science February Update
I hope you have all had a wonderful break and wish you all a successful and rewarding 2025. I look forward to supporting you and your students this year.
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Computing at School Webinar
Computing at School Webinar
This session will introduce the approach and solution to assessing our Paper 2 GCSE on screen.
Tim Brady will summarise the simple approach and provide examples and demonstrate some of the questions. There will be plenty of time for a question-and-answer session where delegates will have the opportunity to ask about the details of the approach and address the administrative and infrastructure challenges that this approach may throw up.
The session will serve teachers and exams officers as well as IT support staff in centres that are considering adopting our approach or already onboard.
Download our Women in Tech Posters
Have you heard about our new Women in Tech Posters?
We want to help inspire and encourage all learners to take an interest in our digital qualifications. Our new posters help to start a conversation in your classroom about the women who have paved the way in tech. You can download the three posters available so far on this page (scroll down and you’ll find them on the right-hand side). More posters are set to be released each month.
So far we have:
- Ada Lovelace
- Katherine Johnson
- Fei-Fei Li
Updates to documentation and other news
Updated documents
The Instructions for the Conduct of the Exam (ICE) has been updated and can be found on the Forms and administration section of our qualifications website. Where you can find revised Exams Officer checklist too. All reference to the Learner Work Transfer (LWT) portal is now linked to our wonderful Knowledge Base, you will find links in the ICE.
Live Paper 2 Preparation Sessions
We are also providing two live sessions to support all our centres in the build up to the Paper 2 summer series. In previous years these sessions have been lively and very helpful please do sign up.
Training and Resources
Useful background content
Tim Brady
Computer Science and ICT Subject Advisor
