Science Year 7 - Year 9

‘An all-round education seeks to develop every aspect of the individual: social, intellectual, emotional, moral, and spiritual. For there is ecology of human growth which means that if any one of these elements is overlooked all the others suffer’ John Paul II

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.’

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964

Whichever way life takes you Science will keep your options open and provide an interesting insight into the world about you.

Our intent is that students receive a broad and balanced curriculum across all three subject areas of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, whilst also developing the scientific skills to enable their progression and application of the theoretical concepts. We want students to be actively engaged, enthused, and inspired by their experiences in and out of the classroom. We have designed our curriculum to teach and expose students to the concepts contained in the underlying and guiding National Curriculum and beyond. Our aim is to expose students to some of the most interesting and engaging material that builds on the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and develops the methods, processes, and uses of science.

Biology is the science that deals with the life processes and habits of all living things, from tiny single cells to whole organisms and how they interact with each other and with their environment. It includes the study of plants (botany), humans (physiology and anatomy) and animals (zoology), genetics and microbiology.

Chemistry examines materials in terms of their structure, their physical and chemical properties, how they interact and what role they play in the living world.

Physics is the science of matter and its motion, as well as space and time – it deals with concepts such as force, energy, mass, and charge, and helps us understand how the world around us behaves.

Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, students are encouraged to recognise the power of rational explanation and develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. They are encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes.

'The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.’

William Lawrence Bragg