Psychology: Key Stage 5

Psychology teaches students to reflect on how we experience the world around us, solve problems, and process our emotions. Students will learn about the value of experiments and statistics as well as observations and surveys. 

The AQA Psychology course is exceptionally well resourced, with excellent textbooks, a wealth of online video lectures (notably from Tutor2U, Bear It In Mind, and PsychBoost) and several detailed educational websites that follow the AQA Specification (notably Tutor2U, PMT and SimplyPsychology). The Department has purchased the digital textbooks from Illuminate known as the ‘Green Haired Girl’ (Year 1) and the ‘Pink Haired Girl’ (Year 2) which students access to do Prep activities.  

If you’re on a budget, the old editions can be found at a discount from second-hand sellers and the content is almost identical.

There are excellent revision resources as well: