Year 10

The course All year 10 Students follow the modular course. See below for details.

Home Work Home work is set by each teacher on a weekly basis and will vary depending on the work the students are undertaking at the particular time, however as a rough guide students should spend around one hour per week on each of their home works.

Modular Course

The course is a double award course from EDEXCEL (course code 1536) in which the students complete twelve modules over years 10 and 11.

At the end of each module students complete a multiple choice exam which is worth a total of 30% of their final GCSE grades.

Students also complete several pieces of course work over the two years which is worth a total of 20% of their final GCSE Grade.

The remaining 50% of their grade comes from the GCSE exam at the end of year 11.

Year 10

In year 10 students cover the following modules:

1 - The human body - action and control

2 - Inheritance and survival

3 - Chemical Patterns

4 - Chemistry in action

5 - Energy and electricity

6 - Waves, atoms and space

Year 11

In year 11 students cover the following modules:

7 - Food production and the environment

8 - Health and exercise

9 - Chemicals and the Earth

10 - Understanding chemical reactions

11 - Movement and change

12 - Energy, force and communication

Revision

Revision guides are available priced £5.00 from the science department. These books are directly linked to the course we are following and an invaluable source of notes.

We also have a couple of other guides available for Physics to help with the mathematical side of the subject.

Time is very short within the modules so we recommend that students constantly review their work spending time to keep abreast of all that is being covered and has been covered during their time in science. Nearer the end of the course we also have access to past exam papers to get the students used to the style of questions asked and how they should answer them. Basically the more practice the student has the better they become - most of this MUST be led by the student, the staff will aim to facilitate their work in any way that we can.