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Science

The Science department, through its ambitious and engaging curriculum, seeks to foster in students a sense of curiosity about the world around them. Science underpins everything and an understanding of the principles of life and the universe enables students to engage meaningfully with its processes.

Students are provided with many opportunities to develop their practical skills through scientific investigations, whilst developing essential skills such as numeracy, literacy and communication that will support their routes into employment and beyond. We aim to develop resilience through designing and undertaking meaningful investigations which produce valid results.

The curriculum at all stages is spiralised to introduce and build upon key scientific concepts which help students to understand complex ideas and so become confident learners who enjoy their lessons and develop a love of science. Students follow the national curriculum at KS3 and have the opportunity to study combined or triple science.

We offer many enrichment opportunities outside of the classroom for students to further develop their love and understanding of Science, including residential trips to London to visit the Science Museum, STEM clubs and other focussed activities and workshops.


Cardinal Newman Catholic High School Curriculum Overview
Science
GCSE Qualification: AQA
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11

 

Autumn

  • Cells, Movement and Reproduction
  • Particle model and separating mixtures
  • Sound and light

 

  • Breathing and digestion
  • Earth, climate and Atmosphere
  • Work, heating and cooling

 

  • Contact forces and pressure
  • Voltage and resistance (Covid Catchup)
  • Variation, evolution and inheritance
  • Organisation
  • Bonding, structure and the properties of matter
  • Infection and response

 

  • Forces
  • Rate and extent of reactions
  • Organic chemistry
  • Chemical analysis

 

 

Spring

  • Plant reproduction and interdependence
  • Voltage and resistance
  • Respiration and photosynthesis
  • Speed, gravity and universe

 

  • Periodic table and elements
  • Waves and wave properties
  • Cells, diffusion and osmosis
  • Quantitative
  • Electricity
  • Chemical changes
  • Energy changes
  • Homeostasis
  • Inheritance, variance and evolution
  • Chemistry of the atmosphere
  • Waves

 

Summer

  • Metals and reactions
  • Acids and alkalis
  • Energy and energy transfers
  • Chemical Energy and Types of Reaction
  • Electromagnets and magnetism

 

  • Atoms, elements and compounds
  • The periodic table, metals and non-metals
  • Energy stores and systems
  • Particle model of matter
  • Atomic structure
  • Bioenergetics

 

  • Ecology
  • Using resources
  • Space Physics (triple only)

 

 

 

 

Staffing

Mr N Latham (Head of Science)
Ms E Corbitt
Ms L Ellison
Miss E Entwistle
Miss L Grant
Mrs P Hall
Mrs Y Jenkinson (Laboratory Technician)