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AQA Psychology: September 2025 updates

Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter

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Monday 1 Sep 2025

Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter

We hope the new term has started well for you and your students. This is an exciting term as we launch our updated AS Psychology (7181) and A-level Psychology (7182) specification. We wanted to offer some important reminders and updates to support you as you deliver the updated specification for the first time. 

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.

If any members of your team would like to receive subject-specific updates, they can easily sign up for AQA subject updates on our website, so they’re always informed and part of our community.

Rosie McGinley
Subject Lead for Psychology

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

For autumn 2025, we’ve developed a range of free professional development training courses and events to help you improve your knowledge and classroom confidence.

A-level Psychology: Getting familiar with the updated Gender topic: support your teaching and strengthen your confidence and understanding of the updated Gender topic, book on to our free on-demand eLearning, the course is accompanied by our new Teaching Guide: Gender

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

myResources

Find everything you need on myAQA

Whether it’s schemes of work, community links or teaching guides, we’ve got what you need, many of which have been updated or are new. Visit the plan, teach and assess tabs on our Psychology web pages. More resources are available on our Centre Services secure web page.

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.

Resources to support our AS and A-level Psychology specification changes

Inside Assessment

Inside Assessment (A-level Psychology) – we want to share more of our assessment knowledge to help you in the classroom to bring out the best in your learners. We’ve designed a new programme to help teachers; heads of departments and leaders develop their assessment literacy and expertise. The programme consists of three elements:

  • What Makes Good Assessment
  • Bringing Assessment to Life
  • Mark scheme guidance and application.

myNetwork

Be in the know! Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for the latest updates, tips and events.

Curriculum Connects

Our community links

The British Psychological Society (BPS)

Still time to apply for the DARTP Awards 2025/2026

Do you know a psychologist working in academia that you think deserves to be recognised and celebrated? If so, there's still just over a month left to nominate someone.

The Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DART-P) Helen Kitching Psychology Teacher of the Year award is open to all employed psychology teachers in UK higher education, secondary schools and further education college sectors.

The Helen Kitching award (previously the Pre-tertiary Education Psychology Teacher of the Year 14 - 18 award) recognises psychology teachers employed in UK schools, FE colleges and sixth forms.

The winner of this award will receive a prize of £1,000 and a year of free membership of the ATP and DART-P. The winner will also be granted £100 towards attendance at the annual ATP conference (2026) hosted by The University of Winchester and have the award win shared across the BPS and The Psychologist website and DART-P social.

You can find out more about these awards and how to apply on the BPS website.

mySupport

Post-results

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

Free@3

Got a question, looking for some guidance on our specification and assessment or want to provide us with some feedback?

New for this academic year, we’re launching our Psychology Free@3. Get the answers and guidance you need by booking an online bespoke meeting with the Subject Lead for Psychology and Law who will be available each Monday at 3.00 pm. Book a meeting here.

AQA A-level Psychology: The Teachers' Conference

On 1 July, we held our first online AQA A-level Psychology: The Teachers’ Conference, where attendees enjoyed masterclasses on ‘The Psychodynamic Approach: Contemporary Research in the field’ with Dr Chris Nicholson, Head of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and ‘Ethical Controversies in Psychology’ delivered by Dr Phil Baynard, Emeritus Professor of Psychology from Nottingham Trent University.

We also benefited from our ‘Voices from the Classroom’ sessions where teachers from our AQA Psychology community shared inspirational practical classroom ideas.

Feedback was overwhelmingly positive – you told us how much you enjoy and value this type of activity. Therefore, we’ve already started planning our conference for next year and looking forward to bringing our Psychology teaching community together again. To support our planning, it would be great if you could complete this short survey here.

You can find all the resources from the conference in Centre Services.

Centre visits

Last year, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting our AQA Psychology schools and colleges. This was an opportunity to see our specification in action and listen to your thoughts about our specification content and assessment. As we look to the future, this valuable insight will help shape our future Psychology specifications and assessments. If you’d welcome a visit at your school, please get in touch with us at psychology@aqa.org.uk.

Using AQA resources for AI tools

AQA does not allow anybody (including schools and colleges) to use any AQA materials to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools or technologies. This includes question papers, specifications, mark schemes, reports, teaching resources and other such materials. While we understand how useful these tools are, putting any AQA material into an AI tool would be in breach of copyright law, and AQA policy.

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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Becoming a moderator or examiner can be a valuable experience for you as a teacher and also your school/college. Our vacancies are open and you can apply on our website.

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