Intent:

The science faculty provides a rich, stimulating curriculum which provides all students with the opportunity to study science to a high level.  We equip students with the knowledge and skills to participate in our technological and scientifically literate adult lives; to converse using scientific ideas, to think analytically and participate in scientific debate and contribute to scientific society.  We encourage our students to participate more widely and think more deeply and take deep pleasure from training the next generation of scientists who will steer our developing society.

Knowledge

The science faculty provides a knowledge rich, stimulating curriculum which provides all students with the opportunity to study science to a high level.  

Strength

We equip students with the knowledge and skills to participate in our technological and scientifically literate adult lives; to converse using scientific ideas, to think analytically and participate in scientific debate and contribute to scientific society. 

Ambition

We encourage our students to participate more widely and think more deeply and take deep pleasure from training the next generation of scientists who will steer our developing society.

Aims:

Our curriculum is designed to facilitate students building secure knowledge and understanding over time, and the retention of that knowledge and understanding, based on the following ideas and strategies:

• Sequencing:  The timelines have been sequenced to ensure that students visit the content in an order where key concepts build sequentially on prior understanding
• Spaced Learning:  The timelines deliberately contain recap and revision points which allow students to revisit key ideas to facilitate longer term recall
•  Interleaving:  The timelines deliberately move from topic to topic while maintaining the overall sequential flow to allow students to experience a fast paced and varied curriculum.

For more detailed information of the core content covered in this subject for each year group, please access the Knowledge Organisers here:

Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8 and 9) 
Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11)

Key Stage 3
Year 7	Cells, tissues, organs and systems
	Reproduction
	Muscles and bones
	Ecosystems
	Mixtures and separation
	Acids and Alkalis
	Particles
	Atoms, elements and molecules
	Energy and Changes
	Electricity
	Forces
	Plant Reproduction
	Rocks
	Earth and Space
Year 8	Digestion
	Breathing and respiration
	Unicellular Organisms
	Combustion
	Periodic Table
	Metals and their uses
	Fluids
	Light
	Energy
	Genetics and Evolution
	Plant Growth
	Making Materials
	Reactivity
	Forces and Motion
	Force fields and Electromagnets
Year 9	Key Concepts
	Cells and Control
	Genetics
	Health and Disease
	States and purifying
	Rates and energy changes
	Atoms and periodic table
	Bonding
	Motion
	Conservation of energy
	Waves
	Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Key Stage 4
Year 10 and 11	Edexcel (1-9) GCSE combined science or Physics, Chemistry and Biology