Science

Staff
Head of Science:	Mr Julian Edgell BSc PGCE
Teachers:	Mr Chris Cox BSc PGCE
	Mrs Meika Byas BSc PGCE
	Mrs Penny Cook BEd
	Mr Ian Turnbull BA
	Mr Nick Smith BSc PGCE
	Mrs Hannah Digby BSc PGCE
Laboratory Manager:	Mrs Pauline Baker
Technician:	Mrs Michelle Staddon

Aims

To make Science an interesting and attractive subject.

To provide opportunities for the pupils to develop their skills, creativity, knowledge and understanding of Science through a range of activities, to work quantitively, use first-hand and secondary courses of information and to develop their use of ICT.

To encourage pupils to think carefully and to ask questions during their work; to communicate their ideas and information in a variety of ways (including ICT), using scientific terms and symbols, SI units, and to demonstrate their scientific knowledge and understanding.

To relate scientific knowledge and understanding to familiar phenomena and things used every day, to develop awareness of the relevance of Science to their personal health, living things and local environment, how it influences the quality of their lives and how it has contributed to scientific and technological developments.

To obtain evidence to test scientific ideas and to consider how ideas have changed through time; the reasons for these developments, to see that Science provides explanations for many phenomena and that scientific knowledge and understanding need to be supported by evidence to explain these fully.

To develop pupil's knowledge and understanding of health and safety when working with living things and materials, to recognice hazards and assess risks to themselves and others.

Science is divided into four attainment targets:

SC1 - Experimental and Investigative Science

SC2 - Life Processes and Living Things

SC3 - Materials and their Properties

SC4 - Physical Processes

Each is split into 9 levels of achievement. Pupils should be aiming for at least a level 5 in the end of year 8 exam.