Acting Head of Department:  Mrs G Adams

SCIENCE AT KEY STAGE 3

If you have ever wondered why the sky is blue, or what is the universe expanding into, or why don’t penguin’s feet freeze, then you will understand why teaching and learning about this subject is so amazing.

The Priestlands’ Science department aims to nurture the enquiring minds of our students in a challenging and fun manner. This enables all students to operate as scientists, because once they leave Priestlands school, Science will infiltrate their lives in so many ways on a daily basis.

In key stage 3, we aim to inspire future scientists by using an enquiry based approach. We teach enquiry and content through themes which we hope will captivate pupils and relate science to the every day world.
We assess pupil’s progress regularly using Hampshire’s Science criteria. Students are given pupil speak assessment criteria to refer to as they work through the key stage.

Student ability and teacher recommendation will be used at the end of KS3 to set the students in Year 9

Year 7

Year 7 cover the following themes:

Year 8

Enthusiastic Year 8 students continue their Science education by learning through a series of modules built on the foundations of energy, forces, cells and particles. They will also focus on operating as a scientist and  particular learning and thinking styles.

Year 8 cover the following topics: