Science

The Science Department 

  • Miss C Roache – Head of Faculty 
  • Dr L Jones - Lead Practitioner and Leader of Biology 
  • Miss V Wright- Leader of Chemistry  
  • Mr A Darby - Leader of Physics 
  • Mrs K Morris - KS3 Lead Teacher 
  • Mrs Garewal - BTEC Science Lead 
  • Mrs T Smith - Head of Year and Science Teacher  
  • Mr S Reid - Lead Technician 
  • Ms C Johns Gardner - Science Teacher
  • Ms K Hemus - Science Technician / Textiles Technician
  • Miss C Ross - Science Teacher 
  • Miss S Davidson - Science Teacher
  • Miss P Young - Science Teacher

 

Curriculum Intent

Our mission in Science is to provide a high-quality, ambitious and challenging knowledge rich curriculum, developing curiosity and exploration of all areas of Science, supporting literacy and numerical application as well as delivering an understanding of substantive and disciplinary knowledge for Science. This enables all students no matter what their level to acquire a coherent educational experience to:-

  • Ignite curiosity, unlock potential in developing skills equipping students to think critically and analyse situations.
  • Become confident citizens in a technological world, able to make informed decisions on scientific matters
  • Recognise the nature, usefulness and limitations of scientific methods, models, theories and processes aswell as appreciate their applications in other disciplines and everyday life.
  • Encouraging pursuit and success into further Science study.

Key Stage 3

Our vision in KS3 Science starts the learning journey of our high-quality, ambitious, challenging curriculum. We embark with the 5 key concepts Forces, Particles, Cells, Energy and Interdependence building on a varied experience of our students from KS2. Using the framework of excellence format, NC, high quality resources and all extra-curricular opportunities we prepare our students for their GCSE courses by:-

  • Delivering substantive knowledge in all Science areas, supporting literacy and numeracy as well as cross curricular links.
  • Delivering disciplinary knowledge in all aspects of Science developing practical skills- planning, knowledge of apparatus and techniques, risk assessments, recording observations, displaying and interpreting data, making conclusions and evaluations.
  • Retrieval practice which interleaved to enhance short- and long-term memory.
  • Reading of challenge texts using questioning to support retrieval of key vocab and links to other areas of Science and cross curricular links.

Scaffolding and modelling to explain meaning of key vocabulary and extended questions(QWC) tasks building confidence in the describing processes or disciplinary knowledge.

Key Stage 4

Our vision at KS4 Science is to continue the learning journey started at KS3, with a well-designed and sequenced curriculum which matches the AQA Separate Science or Combined Science Trilogy specifications. Each student has a Science teacher delivering their specialist subject for Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The curriculum uses the framework for excellence, high quality knowledge rich resources to deliver a broad, ambitious and challenging curriculum which all students can access involving: -

  • Delivering substantive knowledge in each Science area, supporting literacy and numerical application again making any cross curricular links
  • Enhancing disciplinary knowledge with a particular focus on required practical’s for the AQA specifications
  • Continued retrieval practice and summary techniques with an interleaved approach to enhance short- and long-term memory
  • Reading of challenge texts using questioning to support retrieval of key vocabulary, links to other areas of Science and cross curricular links
  • Scaffolding and modelling to explain meaning of key vocabulary and extended question tasks building confidence in the explaining and evaluating processes, disciplinary knowledge and numerical application
  • Application of substantive and disciplinary knowledge in all science areas
  • Tools to make critical and analytical thinkers.

Key Stage 5

Our vision at KS5 in Science is to continue to develop a passion for Science.  Our science specialists have designed an in-depth and ambitious curriculum which meets the AQA specifications in A Level Biology, Chemistry and Physics as well as Level 3 BTEC Applied Science.

Our A Level courses have been designed to ensure:

  • The main themes build upon the GCSE topics
  • Understanding is strengthened by challenge and lateral thinking 
  • Topics are insightful and develop links to exciting areas of research
  • Practicals develop pupils’ independent practice as well as evaluative skills, necessary for their next steps at university, apprenticeships or in employment.

Our Level 3 BTEC course is designed to develop:

  • Substantive and disciplinary knowledge together with practical investigations to meet the Edexcel Applied Science specification
  • Opportunities to explore, analyse and evaluate scientific processes whilst implementing the required techniques
  • Research of human biological systems showing an in-depth knowledge of gross anatomy and their functions
  • Identification of diseases which affect the function of the biological systems as well as reviewing and evaluating treatments.

Exam Boards

GCSE Combined Science - AQA

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/combined-science-trilogy-8464/specification-at-a-glance 

Separate Sciences GCSE - AQA

Biology

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/biology-8461/specification-at-a-glance 

Chemistry

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/chemistry-8462/specification-at-a-glance 

Physics

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-8463/specification-at-a-glance 

Post 16 

A level Biology - AQA

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/as-and-a-level/biology-7401-7402/specification-at-a-glance 

A level Chemistry - AQA

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/as-and-a-level/chemistry-7404-7405/specification-at-a-glance 

A level Physics - AQA

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/as-and-a-level/physics-7407-7408/spec-at-a-glance 

BTEC Nationals (level 3) Applied Science - Pearson

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/btec-nationals/applied-science-2016.html 

Curriculum Summary

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