Science is structured to give students a breadth and depth of knowledge which is relevant to their life; progressing over seven years to achieve academic excellence and personal success with support and challenge where required to enable rapid progress. We want to enable students to become astute with the skills needed to apply the subject in life, to be inspired to learn about the subject  continuously and to understand the world around them as well developed individuals.

Key stage 3

Year 9

  • Conservation of Energy
  • Heating
  • Energy resources
  • Molecules and matter

Key stage 4

Year 10

  • Electric circuits
  • Electricity and the home
  • Radioactivity
  • Forces
  • Force and motion
  • Pressure

Year 11

  • Waves and EM waves
  • Waves and light
  • Light and Electromagnetism
  • Space

Key stage 5

Year 12

  • Foundations of Physics
  • Forces and Motion
  • Charge and Current
  • Forces
  • Energy and resistance
  • Electrical circuits
  • Work and energy
  • Waves
  • Materials
  • Momentum
  • Quantum
  • Thermal Capacitance
  • Ideal gases
  • Electric fields

Year 13

  • Ideal gases
  • Circular motion
  • Oscillations
  • Electric fields
  • Magnetic fields
  • Gravitational fields
  • Stars
  • Particle physics
  • Radioactivity
  • Nuclear physics
  • Cosmology
  • Medical imaging