Bishop Fox’s SchoolScience Faculty

Year 7 AutumnPractical Introduction & Health and Safety inScienceBunsen burners, microscopes, observations andmeasurements, handling apparatus and chemicalssafely.AnimalsCells, tissues, organs and systems. Humanreproduction, puberty and IVF.EnergyForms of energy, conduction, convection and radiation.Electrical current and voltage. Simple circuits.ParticlesStates of matter, elements, compounds and mixtures,filtration, evaporation, distillation, chromatography,solubility.

ForcesTypes of force, balanced and unbalanced forces, airresistance and streamlining, upthrust and waterresistance, gravity, mass and weight, speed, magnetism.ReactionsAcids, alkalis and neutralisation, reactants andproducts, tests for oxygen, hydrogen, ammonia andcarbon dioxide, chemical symbols and formulae.EnvironmentClassification, keys, interdependence, habitats, foodchains and webs, pyramids of biomass, investigatinghabitats.

Preparation for Year 7 Exam

Exam skills, KS3 command words, revision techniques,scientific literacy.

Preparation for Key Stage 4 ISAs

ISA skills booklet, Skills-based practical work, ISAcommand words, scientific vocabulary and literacy forISA controlled assessments.

Spring Summer

Unit

Animals: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)Energy: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)Particles: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)

Forces: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)Reactions: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)Environment: Level Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)

End of Year 7 examination:One hour examination (75 marks).

Assessment

Bishop Fox’s SchoolScience Faculty

Year 8 AutumnAnimalsLungs, respiratory system, smoking, heart, circulatorysystem, transplants, food tests, digestive system,enzymes, respiration.EnergyTransverse and longitudinal waves, wave equation,sound amplitude and pitch, light reflection, refractionand diffraction.ParticlesThe historic and modern Periodic Table, alkali metals,halogens, noble gases, transition metals, salts, simpleand fractional distillation.

ForcesResultant forces, speed and velocity, terminal velocity,acceleration, free fall, thinking, braking and stoppingdistances.ReactionsThe Rock Cycle, sedimentary, metamorphic andigneous rocks, quarrying, fossil fuels, global warmingand dimming, acid rain, renewable energy, nuclearenergy.EnvironmentPalisade cells, stomata, photosynthesis, glucose,distribution of organisms, flower structure, pollination,cloning, cuttings, tropisms.

Preparation for Year 8 ExamExam skills, KS3 command words, revision techniques,scientific literacy.

Preparation for Key Stage 4 ISAsISA skills booklet, Skills-based practical work, ISAcommand words, scientific vocabulary and literacy forISA controlled assessments.

Spring Summer

Unit

AnimalsLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)EnergyLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)ParticlesLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)

ForcesLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)ReactionsLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)EnvironmentLevel Assessed Task.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)

End of Year 8 examination.One hour examination (75 marks).

Practice Science Controlled Assessment inpreparation for KS4

Assessment

Bishop Fox’s SchoolScience Faculty

Year 9 AutumnBiologyInherited and environmental variation, genetics andDNA, inheritance, inherited disorders, selectivebreeding, genetic engineering, plant structures,transpiration.ChemistryReactions of metals with oxygen, water and acids,metal displacement reactions, rusting, atomic structure,chemical bonding.PhysicsSprings, elastic potential energy, levers and turningmoments, periods of pendulums, pressure, gravitationalpotential energy, kinetic energy.

BiologyNervous System, Endocrine System, Homeostasis,Defense MechanismsPhysicsRenewable Energy, Momentum

Preparation for Key Stage 4 ISAsISA skills booklet, Skills-based practical work, KS4command words, scientific vocabulary and literacy forISA controlled assessments.Start GCSE course

Spring Summer

Unit

BiologyLevel Assessed Task on selective breeding.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)ChemistryLevel Assessed Task on metal displacementreactions.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)PhysicsLevel Assessed Task on turning moments.End of Topic test (50 marks, converted to levels.)

GCSE End of Topic Assessments GCSE End of Topic AssessmentsAssessment