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At Hampton High School the Science curriculum aims to provide students with the industrial skills (researching, presenting and analysing data) needed to work not only in science but also in numerous other fields. By the time students leave Hampton High they will be able to critically scrutinise information they encounter to enable them to make informed decisions throughout their lives. 

At the start of their scientific study at Hampton High students become equipped with a foundational skill set in laboratory techniques and data handling to ensure that all students are on a level playing field when they join us, as many have never been in a science laboratory before secondary school.  

Schemes of work are designed to ignite students’ curiosity about the world around them with practical investigations, research projects and debates.  

How do we help our students to ROAR? 

Resilient: In the Science department we challenge students to analyse and evaluate scientific data to draw their own, informed conclusions. Students are challenged to see links between pieces of evidence and interpret trends for themselves.  

Open-Minded: Woven throughout the curriculum are opportunities to explore global science issues and students are encouraged to consider multiple points of view when forming their own opinions. Students also have the opportunity to debate some of these issues where they learn to actively listen and value the opinions of others. 

Aspirational: Through our curriculum, we aim to give our students the opportunity to explore the vast number of careers that qualifications in science can prepare them for.

Reflective: Students are encouraged to reflect on their work and progress throughout the key stages. This may be achieved through evaluating their experiments or contemplating and improving on their current conception of how the world works.  

Year 7 Intent: 

In Year 7, we equip students with the necessary skills to work safely and effectively in a laboratory and to analyse the data that they will collect in their investigations. We also reinforce the industry skills needed in science during their end of term projects.  

We select topics for Year 7 that link not only to their KS2 knowledge but are the basic building blocks for each of the science disciplines, biology, chemistry and physics. 

Year 8 Intent: 

In Year 8, students continue to hone their scientific skills of analysing and evaluating through new topics from each of the scientific disciplines. As in Year 7, practical work forms the core of students’ learning whilst at the same time we lay the foundational knowledge that will help them grasp more complex ideas at GCSE.  

Year 9 Intent: 

In Year 9, students are introduced to the building blocks from each science needed in the separate Science GCSEs. In the Autumn term, students complete 4 topics that will prepare them to take the knowledge they will learn from the GCSE and apply it in different contexts, including during practical investigations or mathematical problems. In the Spring and Summer terms, students study topics found on the GCSE specification, focusing on practical skills and key concepts.  These units of study will prepare them for the start of their GCSE lessons in the final half term of the year.

Year 10 Intent: 

In year 10, students study all three of the sciences concurrently and will have a separate specialist science teacher for each of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. We will then build on the knowledge and skills developed at Key Stage 3. Though scientific theory plays a bigger role at GCSE than at Key Stage 3, the practical element of each science remains a key focus. Not only must students complete a range of required practicals which they could be examined on at the end of the course, we also include a range of other practical investigations throughout each of the three science curricula.   

Year 11 Intent: 

In Year 11, from the spring term we recap the course content with a strong focus on exam technique to prepare students for their GCSEs. Lessons focus on recall of key information and the key skills of applying information to new situations, describing and explaining trends in unfamiliar data, and evaluating evidence relating to content they have studied.  

 

Biology Learning Journey

Learning Journey for Biology

 

Chemistry Learning Journey

Learning Journey for Chemistry

 

Physics Learning Journey

Learning Journey for Physics

 

Science Curriculum Plan

Science Curriculum Plan Overview

 

GCSE Science Specifications

AQA GCSE Biology Specification

AQA GCSE Chemistry Specification

AQA GCSE Physics Specification

AQA GCSE Combined Science Triology Spcification

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