Posted on: 22/10/2021
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Science
Every student will study all aspects of Science through Years 7 to 11, with the opportunity to progress onto A2 Level courses in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology. Our aim is to provide every student with a set of skills and a body of scientific knowledge and concepts to equip them for future life. We also encourage the follow-on into science-based careers as well as Further and Higher Education.
At Key Stage 4 we follow the Gateway Science (A) suite of GCSEs (OCR syllabus). Some students will achieve a Combined Science GCSE (gaining a double grade worth 2 GCSEs). There is also scope for more able, interested students to study Biology, Chemistry and Physics as separate subjects at GCSE, leading to three separate GCSE qualifications.
The Department maintains a YouTube channel which contains videos to support various aspects of the GCSE courses. This resource will continue to be developed with more content being added especially in the build up to examinations.
MAIN TOPICS COVERED
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YEAR 7 |
B1.1 Cells B1.2 Structure and Function of Body Systems P1.2 Sound P1.3 Light C1.1 Particles and their Behaviour C1.2 Elements, atoms and compounds B1.3 Reproduction C1.3 Reactions C1.4 Acids and Alkalis |
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YEAR 8 |
B2.1 Health and Lifestyle B2.2 Ecosystem processes P1.1 Forces P1.4 Space C2.1 The Periodic Table C2.2 Separation Techniques P2.1 Electricity and magnetism P2.2 Energy C2.4 The Earth |
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YEAR 9 |
B2.3 Adaptation and Inheritance C2.3 Metals and Acids P2.3 Motion and Pressure |
Students currently begin the GCSE course in January of Year 9
GCSE COMBINED SCIENCE ROUTE (2 TEACHERS)
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YEAR 9 |
B4 Community-Level Systems P4 Waves and radioactivity (waves only) C1 Particles C2.1 Elements, Compounds and mixtures (purity and separating techniques) |
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YEAR 10 |
P1 Matter P2 Forces B1 Cell-Level systems B3 Organism-Level systems C2 Elements, Compounds and mixtures (remainder) C3 Chemical reactions C4 Predicting and identifying reactions and products B2 Scaling up or P3 Electricity and magnetism |
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YEAR 11 |
B2 Scaling up or P3 Electricity and magnetism B5 Genes, inheritance and selection B6 Global challenges P4 Waves and radioactivity (radioactivity only) P5 Energy P6 Global challenges C5 Monitoring and controlling chemical reactions C6 Global Challenges |
Note: the Physics modules are numbered differently in the triple and double science routes
SEPARATE SCIENCES
BIOLOGY (1 TEACHER)
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Year 9 |
B4 Community-level systems |
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Year 10 |
B1 Cell-level systems B3 Organism-level systems B2 Scaling up |
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Year 11 |
B5 Genes, inheritance and selection B6 Global challenges |
CHEMISTRY (1 TEACHER)
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Year 9 |
C1 Particles C2.1 Elements, compounds, and mixtures (purity and separating techniques) |
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Year 10 |
C2 Elements, compounds, and mixtures (remainder) C3 Chemical Reactions C4 Predicting and identifying reactions and products |
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Year 11 |
C5 Monitoring and controlling chemical reactions C6 Global challenges |
PHYSICS (1 TEACHER)
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YEAR 9 |
P5 Waves |
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YEAR 10 |
P1 Matter P2 Forces P3 Electricity P4 Magnetism and magnetic fields |
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YEAR 11 |
P6 Radioactivity P7 Energy P8 Global challenges |
KEY STAGE 5
A2 courses offered, and their specifications are as follows:
CHEMISTRY
A Level Chemistry Edexcel Exam Specification
BIOLOGY
A Level Biology OCR Exam Specification
PHYSICS
A Level Physics OCR Exam Specification
