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AQA Computer Science: September 2025 updates

Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter

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Monday 1 Sep 2025

Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter

As we start a new school year with an updated specification for GCSE and some new teachers on board, I wanted you to know where you can get information, training and resources to support your Computer Science teaching. All of this can be accessed from our website.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at various training events this term and receiving the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment review when it’s published. In this email you’ll find all the information to get you started this term, including links to Data Insights, past papers and grade boundaries web pages for the summer 2025 series in myResources.

Make sure you and members of your team are the first to hear about our subject updates, they can easily sign up for AQA subject updates using the link on our website, so they’re always informed and part of our community.

Frances Sparrow
Subject Lead – Computer Science

myAQA

Sign up to myAQA to get quick access to resources, CPD training and events, Data Insights (our results analysis tool) and much more this autumn term. Make sure you’ve filled in your myAQA profile including your role and subject specialism so we can instantly start connecting you with the tools, training and resources most relevant to you.

Once you’re logged into your myAQA account, you can also access Centre Services.

myTraining

We've free live online training and on-demand courses available this term on our Professional Development web pages:

The autumn term is packed with events, so keep an eye out for updates and reminders.

Marking non-exam assessment (NEA)

Are you looking to improve the accuracy of your NEA marking this year? Why not use our free Teacher online standardisation tool during a departmental meeting to check your marking is in line with our lead moderators? Find out more on our website.

Find everything you need on myAQA

We’ve created three new teaching guides for GCSE and a new Scheme of work to help you with your planning. Find them in teaching resources on our qualifications web pages.

Data Insights on Centre Services – see how your school, subject, class and individual students have performed and dig deeper into your students’ results.

Find summer 2025 question papers, mark schemes, and examiners’ reports, all in one place on Centre Services. See what is available and when.

You can find each of the grade boundaries on our website and the overall results statistics with cumulative pass rates for the whole AQA cohort.

Curriculum Connects

Curriculum Connects: Exploring Summer 2025 exam series events - book now our Professional Development web pages. Join the Computer Science team to reflect on the 2025 series and network with other teachers.

Our community links

Come and see us at one of the events we’re attending and sponsoring in 2025/2026.

Free@3

Book at meeting with Computer Science subject support. Your Subject Support team will be running 1-1 Teams calls throughout the Autumn term to support you with all things AQA Computer Science! If you have questions about our exams, specifications and resources, or just want to know more about our excellent CPD opportunities, you can book to secure your Free@3 slot! We’ve kept our afternoons free for you!

Post-results services

Log into myAQA for post-results services to find information and deadlines and an easy summary guide.

AQA NEA advisers

Each school or college has a dedicated NEA adviser. Our advisers are experienced teachers and moderators who can offer guidance and support throughout the academic year on delivering NEA.

They’re there to answer your questions, explain specification requirements, share teaching ideas and discuss general processes, planning and approaches to NEA tasks.

Their details may have changed from last year - so you can find them on Centre Services by going to ‘Pre-exams’ and then clicking on ‘NEA Advisers’. If you do not have an assigned adviser, please contact eos@aqa.org.uk.

Please be aware that contact details are confidential and must not be shared with third parties including students and on social media. Further information about our commitment to data privacy can be found in our privacy notice.

Updated GCSE specification

A reminder that we’ve made some small changes to the 8525 GCSE Computer Science specification for first teaching this September. Head over to our dedicated web page for the support and resources you need to get started.

There’s also a new Scheme of work to accompany the updated specification and three new teaching guides available in Teaching resources on our website.

Coming soon! AQA’s self-paced coding lessons on VS Code for Education

We’re producing a set of self-paced coding lessons on Microsoft’s VS Code for Education platform. Alan Harrison will be showcasing these during a Computing at School (CAS) event on 23 September ‘Coding Made Easy: AQA’s Python on VS Code Resources’. We're keen to have feedback on how useful these are and how we can improve them. If you'd be interested in being a Pilot school for these, then please sign up using the link to the sign-up form or email us at computerscience@aqa.org.uk.

We'd like your feedback on the A-level Electronic Answer Document

We’re looking for teachers, learners and exams officers to feedback on the Electronic Answer Document (EAD) for AQA Computer Science. We're proposing to change the way these are submitted and want to capture your requirements. We’ve created a survey form that you can complete or you can email us on computerscience@aqa.org.uk. Please feel free to share this link with your learners.

Student Advisory Group – recruitment for 2025/26

We’re looking for learners to join our Student Advisory Group to help us make key decisions about the future of exams. We’d love to hear from learners who’ve completed AQA specification GCSEs since 2024, as well as from those taking AQA AS and A-levels. We also really want to hear from students taking our vocational qualifications, or vocational qualifications with any other exam board, as long as they have sat at least one AQA qualification.

Since the Student Advisory group began they’ve; represented the student voice each year at the Parliamentary Youth Reception, shared their views at the Curriculum and Assessment Youth Shadow Panel, fed into our Curriculum and Assessment call for evidence response, given insights on AI in the Classroom at the 2025 Festival of Education, helped with reviewing books for our English literature set texts list, and much more.

So if you know any learners who you think would be interested, please pass this on. Full details of the role and how to apply can be found on our website. Applications open on Monday 8 September and close at 5.00pm on Monday 22 September 2025.

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