 Newsletter
This is an interesting time in the science faculty.
One laboratory has been designated as the Science mini City Learning Centre for Salford. This has been fully refurbished and provided with new equipment and technology, including laptop computers, interactive whiteboard, digital data projector and a range of software to aid pupil learning. This has added to the extensive range of equipment and apparatus we continually use to aid learning and teaching in science.
Last Christmas pupils from year 9 attended the annual Christmas lecture at Salford University, enjoying a talk on the Solar System and the Hubble Telescope. Further educational visits are in the process of being planned.
A set of year 9 pupils are currently studying GCSE Chemistry on a Friday evening after school. They will complete the extra requirement of separate sciences in their own time, leading to their achieving a total of three separate science GCSE’s by the end of year 11.
Along with all schools in the country we are preparing to introduce new GCSE’s in the Autumn term. These reflect the changing emphasis on Science in the community and at work. At Wentworth, we have decided to adopt the AQA syllabus. In the first instance this means that all pupils in year 10 will study one common GCSE in Science, obtaining this at the end of year 10. In year 11 there will be the option of studying one of two different GCSE’s. All pupils gaining two GCSE’s in science by the end of year 11.
Dr Johnson
Head of Faculty |
