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“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.” Eric Ries
Assessment objectives in science are skills that cross over all of the different topics that students’ are taught in science. They detail the main skills that each student needs to portray in order to succeed in each topic.
Assessment Objective 1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Assessment Objective 2: Apply knowledge and understanding of:
Assessment Objective 3: Analyse information and ideas to:
Each assessment objective transcends any specific year group and forms 3 significant skills the students’ need to demonstrate in class and assessments to succeed in making outstanding progress.
Each topic test is reflectively reviewed and students use information on the assessment objectives to identify weak areas of knowledge and assessment objective skills.
Students can visit our website (students will need to login with their @swale.at school account in google) to look at revision, recap and application resources in one concise place:
https://sites.google.com/swale.at/tws-science
Director: Mr C Donovan-Bayley chris.donovanbayley@swale.at
KS3 in science comprises Years 7 and 8. Pupils experience an introduction to the key concepts of biology, chemistry and physics as well as an introduction to practical work, analysis and scientific thinking.
Each topic is set out to improve recall of key terminology and knowledge, whilst enthusing science curiosity.
Lessons are designed to have a focus on the big questions involved in the chapter and includes an extended writing lesson to use knowledge from the chapter to try and answer the big question.
Each test is set out as follows:
Term 1 |
Induction and completion of the Bunsen Burner license |
Cell level systems:
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Term 2 |
Particles:
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Matter:
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Term 3 |
Scaling up
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Elements, compounds and mixtures
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Term 4 |
Forces
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Organism level systems
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Term 5 |
Chemical reactions
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Electricity and magnetism
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Term 6 |
End of year test based on all taught knowledge from the year. |
Space:
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Term 1 |
Community level systems
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Predicting and identifying reactions and products
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Term 2 |
Waves and radioactivity
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Interaction between systems
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Term 3 |
Monitoring and controlling chemical reactions
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Term 4 |
Energy
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Global challenges- Biology
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Term 5 |
Global challenges- Chemistry
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Global challenges- Physics
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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Students’ will complete a transition year into OCR gateway GCSE science. Students will student the introduction units from the GCSE course in order to build the foundation of knowledge needed to study the deeper ideas and concepts of the GCSE specification.
The tests are set out as follows:
The topics which will be taught in year 9 are below.
Start date |
Year 9 |
Term 1 |
Particles |
Term 2 |
Cell level systems |
Term 3 |
Forces |
Term 4 |
Chemical reactions |
Term 5 |
Electricity and magnetism |
Term 6 |
End of year test |
"You learn things much more deeply than in lower school, you start to feel like you really understand science." Emily - Year 11.
Pupils start their GCSEs in years 10 and 11 with all examinations are sat at the end of year 11.
The exam specification studied is OCR Gateway combined science 9-1.
Pupils take Combined Science course are assessed through 100% exams, which includes the understanding of practical skills. Each specialism is separated into 7 units which are studied and assessed with paper 1 exams including units 1, 2, 3 and 7, whilst paper two is based on all knowledge learnt for the specialism i.e units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (main units in bold).
Combined Science is worth two GCSE qualifications and culminates in 6 exams at the end of year 11. There are two biology, two chemistry and two physics examinations. Each exam is worth 60 marks and lasts 1 hour and 10 minutes. All of the exams are equally weighted (16.7% each) and the scores from all six papers is used to determine the final grade awarded.
Information relating to the specific content of the course can be found in the specification links below.
Combined science: CLICK HERE
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie
"You really start to build your practical skills and you can see how what you’re doing in your experiments helps scientists in the real world." Emma - Year 12.
Course: Btec Forensics Investigation
Learners will cover topics such as:
Assessment methods:
59% internally assessed content and 41% externally assessed content (total 2.5 hours of exams).
Entry requirements:
Minimum level 5 in Combined Science. Minimum Level 5 in Maths and level 4 in English.
Progression and career opportunities:
This qualification is supported by a range of universities and taken alongside other qualifications it can fulfil the entry requirements for a number of science-related higher education courses, including biomedical, forensic and sports science, as well as nursing and midwifery. In addition, the qualification is eligible for UCAS points.
Link for specification and further course information: CLICK HERE