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Science
The laboratories benefits from interactive and digital
technology. The department is lead by a Science
graduate, supported by another graduate teacher of
science.
Science is taught from Year 3 onwards as a specialist
subject in one of two well equipped laboratories (each
designed to cater for the teaching of biology physics
and chemistry) as well as a large storage and
preparation facility.
The department aims to stimulate the curiosity, interest
and enjoyment of pupils in science, and so by enabling
pupils to become familiar with a body of scientific
knowledge, principles and vocabulary, to enable them to
develop informed opinions and to be able to support
those opinions by logical argument.
The National Curriculum is used as the basic core with
the IAPS Common Entrance Syllabus interwoven into the
schemes of work, however our primary aim is to ensure
that pupils view the ‘process’ of science as a means to
understand themselves, their environment and their place
in the universe, rather than purely a means to pass
exams.
Science - Departmental Philosophy
- To stimulate pupil curiosity, interest and
enjoyment in science.
- To enable pupils to be familiar with a body
of scientific knowledge, principles and
vocabulary.
- To enable pupils to understand and use
scientific methods, with safety being a major
consideration.
- To enable pupils to develop a range of
personal qualities such as politeness,
perseverance, initiative and independence.
- To enable pupils to work independently or as
part of a team.
- To employ teaching methods and resources
which allow all pupils to have equal access to
science.
- To allow pupils to develop informed opinions
and to be able to support them by reasonable
arguments.
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