Edexcel IGCSE Scheme of Work Template: A Two-Year Hours Plan

Edexcel IGCSE courses run across two years with a real total-hours budget behind them — the planning question isn't just what you'll teach, but whether your pace across both years actually adds up before entries close.

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What each topic needs

• Specification reference — traceable back to the actual Edexcel spec.
• Content — the specific subtopics and vocabulary within the topic.
• Hours allocated per month — spread realistically across the months you'll actually teach it, across both years.
• Learning outcome and assessment — what a student should be able to do, and how you'll check it.
• Key dates — mocks, coursework deadlines, anything specific to this topic.

Two years, one budget

Splitting hours across two years is where plans quietly drift — a topic that felt light in September can eat into February's allocation without anyone noticing until the entries deadline is close. Tracking hours taught against your total budget month by month catches that early instead of late.

Knowing you'll actually finish in time

The useful question isn't "what percentage of the syllabus have I covered" — it's "given how many periods a week I actually teach this class, will I finish before my entries deadline." That needs your real periods-per-week for this specific class, not your whole timetable, walked forward through your actual calendar.

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