Science

Year 7 Science introduces students to scientific concepts and skills that link to a range of familiar and unfamiliar situations in everyday life. The emphasis is on hands on activities and the use of digital technology to enhance understanding of scientific phenomena. In Year 7 and 8 Science, there is a two year programme cycle with both classes studying the same topics at the same time in each year, which will allow for increased collaboration.

Course focus

2022 Programme

• Laboratory skills (follows on from 2021 Introduction to the laboratory)

• From garden to kitchen: preserving, chromatography, pH

• Ecology: habitats, adaptations to the environment

• Interactive systems: weather, water and its impact on the environment

• Electricity: simple circuits, batteries and static electricity.

• Investigating sound

• Science Badges - students choose an area of Science they wish to study and complete activities to earn a badge.

2023 Programme

• Introduction to the laboratory

• Using evidence to solve a crime

• Physical and Chemical Changes

• Heat and light energy in everyday examples

• Individual investigations (leading to Science Fair projects)

• Space - our place in the solar system

• Space travel and how rockets work

• Micro-organisms - helpful and harmful