Science

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The Science Department boasts four dedicated teaching rooms, including two fully equipped laboratories, located around a covered "Sciodome". The department is staffed by three full-time and three part-time teachers, with specialists in each of the three sciences.

We run courses at Key Stage 3 and GCSE, which are compulsory, together with optional GCSE Additional Science and GCSE Separate Sciences. The Key Stage 3 course follows the National Curriculum and we follow the Ed excel Specification for GCSE Sciences. We also offer AQA Biology, AQA Chemistry, OCR Physics and AQA Environmental Studies at A-level, together with IB Biology, Physics and Environmental Systems. Students enjoy plenty of practical work, together with investigations, competitions and project work, to augment formal teaching.

The "Sciodome" also provides the facility to grow fruit and vegetables, and students can even feed the school snakes! Educational trips also take place most terms. In 2011 we achieved pass rates of 100% at A-level and 89% at GCSE, and are proud to have gained places for A-level students at many top UK universities, including a student who gained four A* grades in Mathematics, Biology and Physics, and who is now reading Biochemistry at Cambridge University.