SQL practice lesson for AQA GCSE Computer Science (8525), with editable PowerPoint slides, a student worksheet and full answers. Students practise writing SQL queries and data changes on a database, choosing the right commands and checking their results.

Written for Paper 2 Computing concepts, section 3.7 Relational databases and SQL (spec 3.7.2.1, 3.7.2.2, 3.7.2.3). Everything is editable, so you can adapt it to your class.

What’s included

• PowerPoint lesson (12 slides) with teacher notes on every slide
• Student worksheet (Word), ready to print or edit
• Answer sheet (Word) with mark-scheme style answers for every question

AQ2.48 SQL practice

By the end of the lesson students can:

• Choose and write the right SQL statement for a task
• Answer the longer two-table SQL question clause by clause
• Read a query and describe or predict what it does

Worksheet sections: A. Describe and predict; B. Write SELECT queries; C. Change the data; D. Exam-style questions; E. Challenge

Every lesson includes

• Learning goals and a starter question
• Clear explanations, diagrams and worked examples (Python 3 throughout, with AQA pseudo-code alongside so students can read exam algorithms)
• A quick check and a “your turn” task linked to the worksheet
• Exam-style questions with marks, and an exit ticket

Format

• PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx), fully editable
• Works in PowerPoint and Google Slides
• Bright, clear GCSE design, consistent across the whole course

These are independent resources written for the AQA GCSE Computer Science specification (8525, version 1.3), for exams from 2027. They are not produced or endorsed by AQA. Spec point numbers are our own numbering of the specification statements.

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Last updated: November 2026.