Builds straight on Year 7 Python: more complex decisions, both kinds of loop, counting and totalling, testing and debugging.

7 complete 55-minute lessons for Year 8, ready to teach.

The lessons

1. Welcome back: Year 7 retrieval quiz and a Python warm-up.
2. Selection with elif and Boolean operators.
3. While loops and input validation.
4. For loops and range().
5. Counting and totalling.
6. ÌÇÐÄVlogting and debugging with normal, boundary and erroneous data.
7. Build a number game (assessed).

What is included for every lesson

• A PowerPoint deck of 26 to 33 slides with speaker notes on every slide and click animations for reveals
• A 55-minute lesson plan with timings
• A printable worksheet
• An answer sheet

How it is taught

• A Do Now at the start of every lesson, to bring back earlier learning
• Hinge questions to check understanding before pupils move on
• Worked examples (I do, we do, you do), then pupil practice
• Unplugged games and mini-whiteboard activities. Each lesson mixes unplugged activities with hands-on work.
• Real photos and clear diagrams, with the photo credit on each deck
• A short exit ticket and a summary slide

Lesson 7 is an assessed number game using a loop, selection and a running total.

Slides are editable PowerPoint (.pptx). Each lesson plan fills a full 55-minute lesson, minute by minute.

British English throughout. Part of a complete KS3 Computer Science course for Years 7 to 9.