Content: Introduces macro-scale physics concepts building on Key Stage 2 gravity and magnetism. Students explore abstract ideas regarding forces and fields, space, and the night sky. Skills development focuses on using formulas, graphing data, and planning investigations.

Assessment: Baseline assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: A study of the Earth's composition, planetary structure, the rock cycle, the formation of fossil fuels, and the components of the Earth's atmosphere. This establishes a baseline to understand subsequent human impacts.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Initiates the biological sequence. Students learn about ecosystems, plant roles as producers, and species interdependence. Mathematical skills center on differentiating continuous and discontinuous data, alongside tracking variation.

Assessment: Mid-point assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Builds upon foundational ideas of temperature and states of matter. Core topics feature energy stores, energy resources, and thermal energy transfers.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Covers the hierarchical organization of multicellular organisms, lifestyle impacts, healthy diet components, energy calculations, deficiency diseases, and the impacts of drugs and alcohol. Closes with a look at the skeletal and muscular systems.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Explores early atomic theory via the Dalton model, differences between atoms, elements, and compounds, and a basic navigation of the Periodic Table. Practical applications explore pure substances, solutions, solubility, physical changes, indicators, and the pH scale.

Assessment: End-point assessment.

Content: Students expand on resource availability, metal vs. non-metal properties, and the production of composites. Biology elements involve plant photosynthesis, leaf structures, ecosystems, variation within species, and inheritance.

Assessment: Baseline assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Extends force concepts into deeper metrics, studying speed, acceleration, pressure, stretching, gas pressure, kinetic theory, and the particle model.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Investigates the human breathing system and specialized cell adaptations. Topics include gametes, fertilisation, the menstrual cycle, unicellular organisms, and a historical exploration of DNA, genes, and chromosomes.

Assessment: Mid-point assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Emphasizes using word equations to model chemical properties. Focuses on atomic structure, patterns in the Periodic Table, separation techniques, thermal decomposition, oxidation, displacement, and acid-alkali neutralisation.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Revisits energy via domestic cost calculations, pathways, and states of matter. Introduces electrical circuits (charge, current, potential difference) and sound wave fundamentals.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Review of internal energy concepts, waves, and fundamental Key Stage 3 science principles.

Assessment: End-point assessment.

Content: Quantitative analysis of energy transfers, dissipation, and appliance efficiency. Couples electricity and magnetism into electromagnetism, followed by simple machines, drag, and electromagnetic/light waves.

Assessment: Baseline assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Explores human exploitation of resources at a molecular level. Evaluates food sustainability, population growth challenges, microbial respiration, and the threats of biodiversity loss and extinction.

Assessment: Feedback points on key content.

Content: Uses equations and chemical formulae to depict salt reactions and catalysts. Shifts to molecular biology by studying digestive nutrients, enzyme roles, cellular respiration, and diffusion.

Assessment: End of KS3 assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Traces the historical modeling of atomic structure and the layout of the Periodic Table. Explores periodic trends, how scientific theories shift with evidence, and electron energy levels.

Assessment: End of topic assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Examines cell components, differences in structural cell types, and the cell cycle via mitosis. Touches upon stem cell technologies alongside their associated ethical and moral questions.

Assessment: End of topic assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Traces the 19th-century history of energy concepts relative to steam engines, heat engines, and chemical/biological reactions. Focuses heavily on modern-day fossil fuel limitations and global warming.

Assessment: End of topic assessment & Feedback points on key content.

Content: Students dive deep into the human digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems, looking closely at how they are adapted for their functions. Key practical skills include enzyme action experiments, food tests, and heart dissections. The unit concludes with a study of plant organs and systems.

Assessment: Organisation End of Topic Assessment.

Content: This unit covers the atomic-level structural properties of matter. (Note: Detailed text descriptions for this specific content block were omitted in the overview layout, but it focuses on building fundamental chemistry principles).

Assessment: Bonding End of Topic Assessment.

Content: Students learn to construct circuits and measure current through various components, linking these concepts to everyday electrical devices, power stations, efficiency, and the National Grid. The second half explores the microscopic world of pathogens, the diseases they cause, medicinal treatments, and the clinical testing process.

Assessment: Electricity End of Topic Assessment; Infection and Response End of Unit Assessment.

Content: Students use quantitative analysis to determine chemical formulae and reaction equations. They explore the reactivity series, predict reaction products, look at neutralisation, and study the extraction of Earth's resources. In Bioenergetics, they study photosynthesis factors and explore aerobic and anaerobic respiration across animals, plants, and microorganisms.

Assessment: Quantitative and Changes End of Unit Assessment; Bioenergetics End of Unit Assessment.

Content: Students use the particle model to explain the behaviors of solids, liquids, and gases, calculating density practically using displacement. Internal energy is studied in relation to spacecraft and submarines. In Atomic Structure, students explore nuclear forces, stability, types of radioactivity, and the hazards/uses of ionising radiation.

Assessment: Particle Model End of Topic Assessment; Atomic Structure End of Topic Assessment.

Content: This unit centers on how energy changes occur when chemical bonds break and form. Learners practically investigate thermal energy changes, hone their method-planning skills, and analyze reaction profiles.

Assessment: Mock Examinations; Energy and Rates End of Topic Assessment.

Content: Students explore the nervous and endocrine systems which regulate internal conditions, focusing deeply on diabetes, fertility, and contraception. In Physics, they study Forces—crucial for engineering machines—including gravity, elasticity, speed, and acceleration.

Assessment: Homeostasis End of Topic Assessment; Forces End of Topic Assessment.

Content: Students learn to compare types of reproduction, predict inheritance patterns, and study variation as the basis for natural selection and evolution. They also look at selective breeding. In Chemistry, they study carbon compounds, the petrochemical industry, and chemical analysis techniques.

Assessment: Inheritance End of Topic Assessment; Organic and Analysis End of Topic Assessment.

Content: After completing mock examinations at the start of the term, students scrutinize wave behavior in natural and man-made systems. They explore how waves carry energy and information, examine the electromagnetic spectrum wavelengths, and complete a ripple tank practical to look at experimental error.

Assessment: Mock Examinations; Waves End of Topic Assessment.

Content: Students explore complex ecosystems and the interdependence of communities. The focus heavily targets human impacts, sustainability, atmospheric pollutants, and how industries can minimize waste, limited resources, and energy use.

Assessment: Ecology End of Topic Assessment.

Content: This final physics unit explores the properties of temporary and permanent magnets and their applications (e.g., compasses). Learners also probe electromagnetic effects and their applications across a wide variety of devices.

Assessment: Atmosphere and Resources End of Topic Assessment. (Note: GCSE Paper 1 Examinations begin during this half term).

Content & Assessment: Students sit their final GCSE Examinations.