Science
Staff
Subject leader: Mrs K. Gillett
Mr R. Abrous
Mrs V. Austwick
Dr S. Blom
Mr S. Chiswell
Mrs L. Foster
Mrs N. Rillstone
Mr T. Long
Miss M. Zonda
Intent
Every Amersham School student will become a scientific thinker, building on their curiosity and inquiring mind to question and discover more about the world. All of our students will enjoy the excitement of learning through investigation, using experiments that they may have designed themselves. Our teaching aims to instil a life-long fascination with Science and an appreciation of the relevance of scientific thinking skills to any future career. Our students will be ambitious to achieve their personal best, and with our encouragement, each student will flourish into a confident, independent scientist.
Lesson content
Click HERE for the Science implementation document
Science Curriculum Overview Documents
Click HERE for Year 7
Click HERE for Year 8
Click HERE for Year 9
Click HERE for Year 10
Click HERE for Year 11
Click HERE for Applied Human Biology
Click HERE for Year 12 and 13 Physics
Click HERE for Year 12 and 13 Chemistry
Click HERE for Year 12 Biology
Click HERE for Year 13 Biology
Learning journeys
Year 7 Learning Journey
Year 8 Learning Journey
Year 9 Learning Journey
Year 10 Learning Journey
Year 11 Learning Journey
Knowledge organisers
Here are the links to the Science Knowledge Organisers for Years 7 and 8.
Click HERE for the Year 7 Knowledge Organisers
Click HERE for the Year 8 Knowledge Organisers
Click HERE for the Year 9 Biology Knowledge Organisers, HERE for Chemistry and HERE for Physics
Here are the links to the Science Knowledge Organisers for KS4 GCSE. (They will download as zip files.)
Click HERE to download the GCSE Biology Knowledge Organisers
Click HERE to download the GCSE Chemistry Knowledge Organisers
Click HERE to download the GCSE Physics Knowledge Organisers
Specifications
Click HERE for the GCSE Biology 9-1 Specification
Click HERE for the GCSE Chemistry 9-1 Specification
Click HERE for the GCSE Physics 9-1 Specification
Click HERE for the GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy Specification
Click HERE for the A Level Biology Specification
Click HERE for the A Level Chemistry Specification
Click HERE for the A Level Physics Specification
Click HERE for the A Level Psychology Specification
Useful websites
MyGCSE Science for exam practice
Kerboodle for access to online textbooks and resources
Suggested reading
For those students who want to expand their learning by reading around the subject we recommend the following books:
- The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- Darwin's Ghost - Steve Jones
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson
- Bad science - Ben Goldacre
- Periodic Tales – Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Quantum theory cannot hurt you: a guide to the universe - Marcus Chown
- Why does E=mc2? (and why should we care?) - Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
- Quantum: a guide for the perplexed - Jim Al-Khalili
- Big bang: the most important scientific discovery of all time and why you need to know about it - Simon Singh
- Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman