Years 7, 8 and 9 · National Curriculum for computing

KS3 Computing, every lesson ready to teach

A complete three-year plan: the same six themes each year, a little harder each time, building towards GCSE. Mostly practical, with everything you need for every lesson, and live lessons pupils join with a code.

🐢 Python turtle
🔐 Cryptography
💡 micro:bit
🌐 HTML, CSS, JS
🤖 AI
🎮 Game making

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1 What you get

18units, six a year

108hands-on lessons

3years, mapped to the National Curriculum

0pupil accounts needed

Every lesson, ready

A lesson plan, slides, a worksheet and a preview for each lesson, editable before you download for Word or PowerPoint.

Schemes of work

A scheme for every unit and a whole curriculum plan for your department, in your school's name.

Home learning

A task a week, dated for the half-term, with a look back at an earlier lesson and a ⭐ extension.

Assessment built in

A mid-unit quiz and the unit project (or an end-of-unit quiz), with points you can set for each year group.

2 The three-year plan

The same six themes in the same half-terms every year, getting harder from Year 7 to Year 9. Choose a unit to see its lessons.

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3 Teach it live

Press ▶ Run live on any lesson.
Pupils go to lessonsmith.net/join and type the code. They get a friendly nickname: no names, no accounts.
They work through the lesson one step at a time, with help behind "💡 Stuck?", and their work saves as they go.
You see everyone's progress, mark live with comments and sketches, and pupils reply with a stamp ("I got it", "I need help").
At the end, download everyone's work and coins in one go. Work is deleted 24 hours after the lesson.