Junior Science Yr9 and Yr10

Yr 9 mixed ability classes

Yr10 streamed classes based on exam marks in Yr9

Making sense of The Living World

4.1 Students can investigate and classify, closely related living things on the basis of easily observable features

4.2 Students can investigate and describe special features of plants or animals which help survival into the next generation.

4.4 Students can use simple food chains to explain the feeding relationship of familiar plants and animals, and investigate effects of human intervention on these relationships.

5.1 Students can investigate, and classify in broad terms, the living world at microscopic level.

5.2 Students can investigate and describe structural, physiological and behavioural adaptations which ensure the survival of animals and flowering plants in their environment.

5.4 Students can investigate and understand trophic and nutrient relationships btween producers, consumers and decomposers.

Making sense of The Physical World

4.1/2 Students can investigate and offer explanations for commonly experienced physical phenomena and compare their ideas with scientific ideas

4.3 Students can process and interpret information to describe or confirm trends and relationships in observable physical phenomena

5.1 Students can carry out simple practical investigations, with control of variables, into common physical phenomena, and relate their findings to scientific ideas.

5.2 Students can describe various ways in which energy can be transformed and transferred in our everyday world.

5.3 Students can investigate and describe the patterns associated with physical phenomena – some patterns may be expressed in graphical terms.

Making sense of The Material World

4.1 Students can investigate and group common materials in terms of properties.

4.2 Students can investigate and explain how uses of everyday materials are related to their physical and simple chemical properties.

4.3 Students can investigate and describe ways of producing permenant or temporary changes in some familiar materials.

5.1a Students can investigate familiar substances and describe, using the concept of the particle nature of matter, how they may exist as solids, liquids and gases.

5.1b Students can distinguish between elements, compounds and mixtures using simple chemical and physical properties, and describe a simple model of the atom.

5.2 Students can apply their knowledge of chemical and physical properties of substances to investigate their safe and appropriate use in the home and the community.

5.3 Students can investigate some important types of substances and the way they change chemically in everyday situations.

Making sense of Planet Earth & Beyond

4.3a Students can use simple technological devices to observe and describe our night sky.

4.3b Students can investigate and use models which explain the changing spatial relationships of the Earth, its moon, and the Sun, and the way that different cultures have used these patterns to describe and measure time, and position.

5.3a Students can use simple technological devices, such as telescopes and simple star maps, to observe and describe changing patterns in our night sky.

5.3b Students can use information obtained from technological devices, such as radio telescopes and satellites, to clarify, challenge, and extend their ideas about the general characteristics of some near and far space objects.

The Material World

The Living World

The Physical World

Planet Earth & Beyond