The Science Department aims to deliver excellent education to all our students and prepare them with the science and related technology skills needed in life and work. Oakbank’s Science Department offers your child the opportunity to study and practice science, and understand the natural world around them, as we encourage all students to achieve their full potential.
Key Stage Three Science
In Key Stage Three students continue to develop their scientific knowledge and understanding. Scientific ideas are utilised to explain the natural world around them. Students begin to explore and explain a range of scientific and technological advancements, and their respective impact on the environment. They start to consider various scientific views and opinions, and why there may (or may not) be general concensus in the scientific community. Also, pupils carry out practical investigations quantitatively, and analyse and evaluate their observations. They learn how to present scientific information clearly, with clear understanding of why they conducted the work and its significance.
Areas of Study
Scientific enquiry SC1
- (Ideas and evidence in science and investigative skills)
Materials and their properties SC3
- (Classifying materials, changing materials, and patterns of behaviour)
Life processes and living things SC2
- (Cells and cell functions, humans as organisms, green plants as organisms, variation, classification and inheritance and living things in their environment)
Physical processes SC4
- (Electricity and magnetism, forces and motion, light and sound, the Earth and beyond and energy resources and energy transfer)
Key Stage 4 (GCSE) Science
During Key Stage Four students develop broader scientific ideas, and understanding in an attempt to describe the nature of the universe in simple ways. Students begin to explore and explain a range of scientific and technological advancements in biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as their respective impact on the environment . Oakbank students carry out practical investigations quantitatively, and analyse and evaluate their observations. They learn how to present scientific information clearly, with a clear understanding of why they conducted the work and of its significance.
Applied Science | Single Award Science | Double Award Science | GCSE