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Years
9, 10 and 11: Modular Double Award GCSE Science
The three
year course is organised into ten modules:
- The human
body
- Inheritance and survival
- Chemical patterns
- Chemistry in action
- Energy and electricity
- Waves, atoms and space
- Food production and the environment
- Health and exercise
- Chemicals and the earth
- Understanding chemical reactions
- Movement and change
- Physics in action
Specialist
teaching begins in Year 9. The group size is sixteen
or less.
Advanced
Level Sciences
Girls are
accepted to study sciences in the VIth Form with grade
B or above at GCSE. Physics, Chemistry and Biology are
offered at both AS and A2 Level. Two specialist teachers
are available for each science so that girls experience
a variety of teaching methods.
Information
Technology in Science
- Data logging
in experimental work
- Data searches in CD-ROMS and the internet
- Dimulations for electronics, mechanics and physiology
- Mathematical modelling in spreadsheets
- Writing up coursework
- Video analysis of motion
Experimental
Work in Science
- Individual
student directed investigation developing skills in
planning, recording, analysing and evaluating experimental
work
- Class experiments in small groups allowing pupils
to benefit from each others ideas
- Demonstrations to teach new techniques
Trips such
as those to ecological field centres, Natural History
museum, London Zoo and physics days at Alton Towers
inform and broaden the science curriculum at all levels.
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