SCIENCE

Science is a fascinating subject that enables students to develop their understanding of their bodies and the importance of keeping fit and healthy to how the wider world around them works. Studying Biology, Physics and Chemistry can lead to a multitude of careers including psychology, medicine, sport and exercise and pharmacology.

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The intent of the science curriculum is to be rich in powerful knowledge, be academically demanding and build cultural capital. Our new Key Stage 3 curriculum has been carefully designed to ensure students learn key scientific knowledge as well as having the opportunity to see how Science is important in the real world. The science curriculum is coherently sequenced by carefully ordering topics that reflects the Hierarchal structure of the scientific disciplines. For example, we begin by teaching few of the most fundamentals topics of science such as matter and cells. As the students move through the science curriculum these concepts are regularly visited and built on to develop broader and more complex schemas.

Year 7-11 Science

Module 1: Changes 1- The Earth
Module 2: Relationships 1- Elements, compounds and mixture
Module 3: Changes 2-Cellular basis of life
Module 4: System 1- Organisation
Module 5: Relationships 2- Forces on the Earth and beyond
Module 6: System 2- Space exploration

Module 1: Producing energy from organisms & periodic table part 2
Module 2: Finish Producing energy from organisms & Drugs and health
Module 3: Finish Drugs and health & Forces
Module 4: Chemical reactions 2 & Electricity and magnetism
Module 5: Finish Electricity and magnetism & Organisms and their relationship in ecosystems
Module 6: Finish Organisms and their relationship in ecosystems & The Earth

Module 1: Cell structure and cell division & Atomic Structure & Electric Circuits Part 1 (series, parallel, current, charge,p.d and resistance)
Module 2: Cell transport & The periodic table & Electricity in the home + Energy resources
Module 3: Organisation and the digestive system & Chemical Analysis & Conservation and dissipation of energy
Module 4: Organising animals + Respiration & Crude oil and fuels & Energy transfer by Heating (not SHC)
Module 5: Photosynthesis & The Earth’s atmosphere (link to fractional distillation) & Forces in balance
Module 6: Adaptations, interdependence and competition & Ecosystem, organising an ecosystem & The Earth’s resources & Waves + EM waves

Combined science

Module 1: Communicable diseases and Preventing and treating disease & Structure and Bonding & Finish Electricity in the home, Molecules and matter
Module 2: Non Communicable diseases, Respiration & Chemical changes & Molecules and matter & Radioactivity
Module 3: The human nervous system + Hormonal coordination & Chemical calculations & Finish Radioactivity, Forces in balance
Module 4: Reproduction + Variation and evolution & Rates of reaction, Up to Le-Chatelier principle & Forces in balance
Module 5: Genetics and evolution & Energy changes & Motion
Module 6: Organising an ecosystem + Biodiversity & Electrolysis & Force and Motion

Triple science

Module 1: Communicable diseases and Preventing and treating disease & Structure and Bonding & Finish Electricity in the home, Molecules and matter
Module 2: Non Communicable diseases, Respiration & Chemical changes & Molecules and matter, Radioactivity
Module 3: The human nervous system + Hormonal coordination & Chemical calculations & Finish Radioactivity, Forces in balance
Module 4: Reproduction + Variation and evolution & Rates of reaction, Up to Le-Chatelier principle & Forces in balance
Module 5: Genetics and evolution & Energy changes & Motion
Module 6: Organising an ecosystem + Biodiversity & Electrolysis & Force and Motion

Module 1: Respiration + The human nervous system & Energy changes, Rates and equilibrium & Wave properties
Module 2: Hormonal coordination + Homeostasis in action & Rates and equilibrium & Electromagnetic waves + Electromagnetism
Module 3: Reproduction & The Earth’s resources & Energy Recap
Module 4: Variation and evolution + Genetics and evolution & The Earth’s resources & Electricity Recap
Module 5: Paper 1 revision and GCSE Exams
Module 6: Paper 2 revision and GCSE Exams

Sixth form biology

Module 1: Biological molecules & Cell structure
Module 2: Nucleic acids + Exchange & Transport across cell
Module 3: Finish Exchange & Cell recognition and immune system
Module 4: Mass transport & DNA, genes and protein & Biodiversity
Module 5: DNA, genes and protein & Genetic diversity
Module 6: Photosynthesis and respiration & Response to stimuli

Module 1: Respiration, energy and ecosystem & Response to stimuli and Nervous coordination and muscles
Module 2: Energy and ecosystem, Gene expression & Homeostasis and Inherited change
Module 3: Recombinant DNA technology & Population and evolution and Population in ecosystem
Module 4: AS Revision & A Level Revision
Module 5: Exams

The important thing is to never stop questioning.
Albert Einstein