Sciences

Students follow either AQA Trilogy Combined Science for GCSE, or, if they have chosen to take Triple Science as an option, AQA Trilogy Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

These are both traditional, rigorous courses with a high standard of scientific understanding required. Students carry out and write-up a series of ‘required’ practicals and will be tested on these in their exams, of which there are six for all students, taken at the end of Year 11.

To give our students the best chance possible, we spend three years on the course, covering all topics in the detail and depth they require. Close to the exams we then extensively revise the material covered back in Year 9 to ensure it is fresh in students’ minds as they take their exams.

Our topics are:

Biology: Cells and Organisation + Disease and Bio-energetics + Biological Responses + Genetics and Reproduction

Chemistry: Atoms, Bonding and Moles + Chemical Reactions and Energy Changes + Rates, Equilibrium and Organic Chemistry + Analysis and the Earth’s Resources

Physics: Energy and Energy Resources + Particles at work + Forces in Action + Waves, Space and Electromagnetism