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The Science Department Programme of Study:


Year 7:

Autumn Spring Summer
  • Environment & feeding relationships
  • Variation & classification
  • The particle model
  • Solutions
  • The solar system & beyond
  • Forces & their effects
  • Forces & their effects contd.
  • Cells
  • Reproduction
  • Energy Resources
  • Electrical circuits
  • Atoms & elements
  • Compounds & mixtures
  • Acids & alkalis


Year 8:

Autumn Spring Summer
  • Simple chemical reactions
  • Magnets and electromagnets
  • Heating & cooling
  • Food & digestion
  • Respiration
  • Rocks & weathering
  • The rock cycle
  • Light
  • Sound & hearing
  • Microbes & disease
  • Ecological relationships
  • Gravity & space
  • Plants & photosynthesis


Year 9:

As of September 2007 students start OCR Gateway Science in Year 9. The boys are taught in mixed ability groups on a rotation basis as set out below.
They will sit an internal exam in the summer term which will be used to decide which set they are in in Year 10. The coursework produced in Year 9 will count towards the GCSEs taken in Year 11.

The boys in the top sets in Year 10, who have shown sufficient progress in Year 9, will continue on the path that will ultimately lead to three GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Those boys who have not made enough progress will resit the Year 9 material which will lead to two GCSEs in Science and Additional Science (the National Curriculum).

Students are studying the OCR Specification – Gateway Science B
http://www.ocr.org.uk

We are using Collins Gateway Science Textbooks:
ISBN-13: 978-0007214471

Autumn Spring Summer Autumn Y10

B1 – Understanding Ourselves

C1 – Carbon Chemistry

P1 – Energy for the Home

Cwk – Science in the News

B2 – Understanding our Environment

C2 – Rocks and Metals

P2 – Energy for the Home

Cwk – Science in the News



GCSE:

Students study OCR Specification – Gateway Science B
http://www.ocr.org.uk

Autumn Spring Summer
Y10: OCR Gateway Science B

B1 – Understanding Ourselves
a Fit for Life
b Whatís for Lunch?
c Keeping Healthy
d Keeping in Touch
e Drugs and You
f Staying in Balance
g Gene Control
h Who am I?

C1 – Carbon Chemistry
a Cooking
b Food Additives
c Smells
d Making Crude Oil Useful
e Making Polymers
f Designer Polymers
g Using Carbon Fuels
h Energy

P1 – Energy for the Home
a Heating Houses
b Keeping Homes Warm
c How Insulation Works
d Cooking with Waves
e Infra-red Signals
f Wireless Signals
g Light
h Stable Earth

B2 – Understanding Our Environment
a Ecology in our School Ground
b Grouping Organisms
c The Food Factory
d Complete or Die
e Adapt to Fit
f Survival of the Fittest
g Population out of Control?
h Sustainability

C2 – Rocks and Metals
a Paints and Pigments
b Construction Materials
c Does the Earth Move?
d Metals and Alloys
e Cars for Scrap
f Clean Air
g Faster or Slower (1)
h Faster or Slower (2)

P2 – Living for the Future
a Collecting Energy from the Sun
b Power Station 1
c Power Station 2
d Nuclear Radiations
e Our Magnetic Field
f Exploring Our Solar System
g Threats to Earth
h The Big Bang


Cwk – Science in the News


Y11: OCR Additional Science B

B3 – Living and Growing
a Molecules of Life
b Diffusion
c Keep it moving
d Divide and Rule
e Growing Up
f Controlling Plant Growth
g New Genes for Old
h More of the Same

C3 – The Periodic Table
a What are atoms like?
b How atoms Combine ñ Ionic Bonding
c Covalent bonding and the Structure of the Periodic Table
d The Group 1 Elements
e The Group 7 Elements
f Electrolysis
g Transition Elements
h Metal Structure and Properties

P3 – Forces for Transport
a Speed
b Changing Speed
c Forces and Motion
d Work and Power
e Energy on the Move
f Crumple Zones
g Falling Safely
h The Energy of Game and Theme Rides

B4 – It's a Green World
a Who planted that there
b Water, water everywhere
c Transport in plants
d Plants need minerals too
e Energy flow
f Farming
g Decay
h Recycling

C4 – Chemical Economics
a Acids and Bases
b Reacting Masses
c Fertilisers and Crop yield
d Making ammonia ñ Haber Process and costs
e Detergents
f Batch or Continuous
g Nanochemistry
h How pure is our water?

P4 – Radiation for Life
a Electrostatics – Sparks
b Electrostatics 2: uses of electrostatics
c Safe Electricals
d Ultrasound
e Treatment
f What is radioactivity
g Uses of radioisotopes
h Fission


Cwk – Research Study, Data Task and Practical Skills



Y12 & Y13:
AS & A2 specifications are offered in Biology, Chemistry & Physics.
These are all the normal Edexcel Specification (not Nuffield) except Year 12 Chemistry which are starting OCR Chemistry (Salters).

Details can be found at:
http://www.edexcel.org.uk
http://www.ocr.org.uk

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