SCIENCE
We would like to take this opportunity to
send our congratulations to all Year 11
students who have just completed their
GCSE examinations in science, with
some students sitting nine separate
papers. Our main focus is now looking
towards ensuring Year 10 get the
preparation for their examinations early
to ensure the very best success next
summer.
We welcomed the new Year 7s in
September and threw them straight into
a brand new science curriculum. We
are focussing on the National Curriculum in a way that incorporates a love of learning and discovery and that
incorporates independence, curiosity, communication and determination. The students have approached it with
immense enthusiasm and enjoyed the principle of investigating what they are interested in.
Year 8s have now come to the end of their Key Stage 3 content in science and are now preparing for their end
of year examinations. This preparation will ensure our students are well prepared for starting the new AQA
Synergy GCSE specification as of September.
Year 9s and 10s have been working hard this year, ensuring a smooth transition from KS3 into the GCSE
specification. Year 9 students will be entered for the new AQA Synergy GCSE specification. Many schools
organise their curriculum drawing on the experience of two teachers. Science teachers tend to be more
confident around either the life sciences or the physical sciences and science learning is enriched when
teaching draws on different areas that can be naturally linked together. Scientific content has been divided into
two main sections, which contain connections between areas of biology, physics and chemistry that sit together
as part of good science. Online revision resources from AQA will be available to the students to access from
home as of September. Year 9s and 10s are now sitting mock examinations in science, and it is important that
students are preparing themselves for these upcoming examinations.
Some of our gifted and talented students in Year 7 and 8 have been attending science club on a weekly basis
and have had the opportunity to get hands on with a range of practical activities which have been planned to
improve their practical skills within science. This week we carried out heart and lung dissections which
seemed to spark the biological bug within many of our students.