Curriculum
Science
The Subject Way
Our subject has a ‘Subject Way’ at the heart of it. Our Subject Way is designed to help students become young subject specialists. The Subject Way has two main purposes:
Firstly, to teach students the vital skills they need to achieve their full potential and gain the very best grades they can. Secondly, to teach students how each subject relates to the wider world, incorporating the life skills they will learn.
It is our belief that knowing how what you learn links to the wider world brings a subject to life and therefore improves overall understanding and engagement.
Long Term Plans
Year 7
Half term 1 | Half term 2 | Half term 3 | Half term 4 | Half term 5 | Half term 6 |
Students will study biology topics looking at cells and muscles and joints in the body. Skills such as microscopy and planning will also be introduced. | Students will study Chemistry topics looking at particles. They will complete practical work on separating materials, working on planning and analysis skills. | In the first physics topic students will begin to study the physics topic of electricity and energy. Learning all about the different energy stores and the cost of electricity. | This term students will be reproduction in plants and animals and students will be designing an investigation into how plant seeds are dispersed. | In the second chemistry topic of Y7 students will learn about the periodic table of elements and will learn to spot patterns. | Students will be learning all about forces and deciding if forces are balanced or unbalanced as well as learning about the solar system and and earth’s orbit around the sun. |
Year 8
Half term 1 | Half term 2 | Half term 3 | Half term 4 | Half term 5 | Half term 5 |
Y8 starts with students take an in-depth look at the organs of the body and how they work.. This builds on the practical skills and modelling from Y7. | In this second term students will be studying the physics topics of pressure and speed. Here there will be plenty of opportunity for students to work on their graph drawing skills. | In chemistry this year students will build on the the foundations from Y7 to learn about different types of chemical reactions and the energy involved. There will be lots of practical elements with risk assessing learnt by students. | Students will be learning about how different living things are adapted to survive in their environment and how different living things interact and rely on each other for survival. | The rest of year 8 this year will be spent revisiting topics from year 7 that were studied during lockdown and making sure all students have the required working scientifically skills to progress into Y9. | |
Year 9
Half term 1 | Half term 2 | Half term 3 | Half term 4 | Half term 5 | Half term 6 |
This half term will be spent revisiting topics from year 7 and 8 that were studied during lockdown and making sure all students have the required working scientifically skills for Y9 | In this half term students will be studying the human body and elements, mixtures and compounds; building on the knowledge they have from Y7 and Y8. | Students will continue to build on their Y7 and Y8 knowledge, this term studying energy, matter and the environment. | This term students will be studying evolution and inheritance, chemistry in the wider worlds and electricity, magnetism and waves. | Biology: Cell Biology
Chemistry: Atomic structure and the periodic table
Physics: Matter | |
Year 10
Half term 1 | Half term 2 | Half term 3 | Half term 4 | Half term 5 | Half term 6 |
Biology
Organisation + bioenergetics (rotation)
Physics Electricity +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
electrolysis |
Biology
Organisation + bioenergetics (rotation)
Physics Electricity +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
rates of reaction + Organic chemistry/ atmosphere in the extra lesson |
Biology
Homeostasis and response + bioenergetics (rotation) Physics Waves +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
rates of reaction |
Biology
Homeostasis and response
Physics Waves +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
Chemical analysis & endo /exo |
Biology
Ecology Physics Forces +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
chemical energy changes |
Biology
Ecology Physics Forces +Atomic structure (on rotation)
Chemistry:
chemical energy changes |
Year 11
Half term 1 | Half term 2 | Half term 3 | Half term 4 | Half term 5 | Half term 6 |
Biology
Inheritance, variation and evolution Physics Forces +Practical Physics (on rotation)
Chemistry:
electrolysis & chemical changes |
Biology Inheritance, variation and evolution Physics Separate Forces +Practical Physics (on rotation) Combined Electromagnetism +Practical Physics (on rotation)
Chemistry:
quantitative chemistry & C6 rates of reaction |
Biology
Separate Ecology
Combined Revision Physics Separate Waves
Combined Revision Chemistry:
Organic chemistry ( separate only) |
Biology
Revision Physics Separate Space
Combined Revision Chemistry: revision |
Biology
Revision Physics Exam preparation
Chemistry: revision |
GCSE EXAMS |
Department Staff
D Frith
Director
- dfrith@wickersley.net
L Hayley
A Cruise
A Rogers
C Petrucci
R Aubrey
S Jarvis
E Burgin
G Barber
M Rahman
M Ramachandran
O Farooq
R Hayes (Head of Department)
M Kowalska
S Casgoigne
S Royston
A Scard
E Amsbury
S Bunting
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