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About Consilium

Consilium Academies is a multi-academy Trust working across the North of England. It has nine academy schools located in Yorkshire, the North West, and the North East. Consilium is dedicated to enriching lives and inspiring ambitions for both students and colleagues.

Science

 Our curriculum intent applies to all our young people, regardless of background, gender, sexual orientation or ability. As a school, and department, we are absolutely committed that the opportunities we plan for and implement ensure that each student can reach and exceed their potential. 

At Wyvern Academy, our main aim is for students to engage with the world around them.  Whilst it is important that students “know more than they did when they walked in the classroom” it is equally important that students understand the how and the why of the science in their everyday lives.  This will provide them with the skills to analyse and question what they see around them from why their milk tastes sour when it goes off to their own experiences of changes happening in their own bodies over the course of adolescence. With this they will then be able to apply what they already know to things that they don’t and hopefully become scientists that can think for themselves and synthesise their own ideas and explanations for what they see around them

A key part of the science curriculum is around the big scientific questions that face society.  Students will debate and discuss the social, ethical, economic and even spiritual issues surrounding a variety of ideas such as cloning, genetic engineering, the use of finite natural resources and stem cell research to name a few.  This will then lead on into students developing a sense of responsibility for the world around them.  Students will discuss the importance of recycling, minimising energy consumption and even the impact of the lifecycle of everyday products such as their TV or mobile phone.

The science curriculum facilitates effective transition to further qualifications in the subject by building a strong foundation of fundamental ideas that will form the basis of work done in a range of post-16 science qualifications.  The curriculum is also designed to ensure that students are more confident in their use of technical vocabulary through explicit teaching of demanding tier 3 vocabulary.  Numeracy plays a heavy part in the science curriculum, and this is embedded throughout including the use of equations, converting between units, size and scale and graph skills to name a few.  The science curriculum is designed to consider the numeracy skills at key points throughout the curriculum to ensure that appropriate intervention can be given so that all students can succeed regardless of the level of numeracy they are working at.

Knowledge and skills:

Through our curriculum, students:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: scientific ideas; scientific techniques and procedures.
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of: scientific ideas; scientific enquiry, techniques and procedures.
  • Analyse information and ideas to: interpret and evaluate; make judgments and draw conclusions; develop and improve experimental procedures.

Our key aims are for our students to:

  • Develop an awe and wonder of science
  • Develop a confident recall of scientific knowledge and an ability to apply scientific concepts
  • Develop the ability to question the credibility of reported science
  • Develop confident and independent scientists through individual and collaborative work
  • Have informed and ethical opinions about the big scientific questions facing society
  • Develop a sense of responsibility for our planet and the knowledge to be able to best care for it
  • Develop a curiosity for what else we can learn about the world through science
  • Develop transferable and employability skills

Curriculum Overview - Science 

Year 7

  • Autumn Term 1:  Cells and Microscopes
    Gravity and Forces
  • Autumn Term 2: Material Science, Breathing and Digestion, Particle Model
  • Spring Term 1: Sound, Light, Separating Mixtures
  • Spring Term 2: Universe, Genetics
  • Summer Term 1: Elements, Heating and Cooling
  • Summer Term 2: Health and Disease, Designing Materials

Year 9

  • Autumn Term 1:  Universe, Infectious Diseases, Rock Cycle
  • Autumn Term 2:  Variation and Evolution, Generics, Biodiversity and Human Impact
  • Spring Term 1: Cells, States of Matter
  • Spring Term 2:  Cells, States of Matter
  • Summer Term 1:  Atomic Structure, Organisation
  • Summer Term 2: Structure and Bonding

Year 11

  • Autumn Term 1: Organic Chemistry, Magnetism, Homeostasis
  • Autumn Term 2: Rate and Extent, Atmosphere, Waves
  • Spring Term 1: Forces, Analysis
  • Spring Term 2: Ecology, Inheritance, Variation and Evolution
  • Summer Term 1: Using Resources, Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 2: Final preparation for exams

Year 8

  • Autumn Term 1:  Breathing and Digestion, Separating Mixtures
  • Autumn Term 2:  Electricity, Periodic Table, Metals and Non-Metals
  • Spring Term 1: Magnets and Electromagnets, Respiration and Photosynthesis
  • Spring Term 2:  Reactions and Energy, Speed and Pressure
  • Summer Term 1: Universe, Climate and Resources
  • Summer Term 2: Interdependence

Year 10

  • Autumn Term 1:  Organisation, Structure and Bonding
  • Autumn Term 2: Atomic Structure, Infection and Response, Energy Changes
  • Spring Term 1: Quantitative Chemistry, Energy
  • Spring Term 2:  Bioenergetics, Chemical Changes
  • Summer Term 1:  Electricity, Rate and Extent
  • Summer Term 2: Magnetisum, Organic Chemistry, Analysis

 

Biology 

Year 10

  • Autumn Term 1:  Organisation
  • Autumn Term 2: Infection and Response
  • Spring Term 1: Bioenergetics
  • Spring Term 2:  Homeostasis
  • Summer Term 1:  Inheritance Variation and Evolution
  • Summer Term 2: Practical/Independent Project Based Learning and Skills Consolidation

Year 11

  • Autumn Term 1: Cells, Organisation
  • Autumn Term 2: Infection and Response, Bioenergetics
  • Spring Term 1: Ecology
  • Spring Term 2: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 1: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 2: Final preparation for exams

Chemistry 

Year 10

  • Autumn Term 1:  Structure and Bonding
  • Autumn Term 2: Quantitative Chemistry
  • Spring Term 1: Chemical Changes, Energy Changes
  • Spring Term 2:  Rate and Extent
  • Summer Term 1:  Organic Chemistry
  • Summer Term 2: Practical/Independent Project Based Learning and Skills Consolidation

Year 11

  • Autumn Term 1: Organic Chemistry
  • Autumn Term 2: Analysis
  • Spring Term 1: Using Resources
  • Spring Term 2: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 1: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 2: Final preparation for exams

Physics 

Year 10

  • Autumn Term 1:  Atomic Structure
  • Autumn Term 2: Energy
  • Spring Term 1: Electricity
  • Spring Term 2:  Magnetism
  • Summer Term 1:  Space
  • Summer Term 2: Practical/Independent Project Based Learning and Skills Consolidation

Year 11

  • Autumn Term 1: States of Matter, Radioactivity
  • Autumn Term 2: Space, Forces
  • Spring Term 1: Forces
  • Spring Term 2: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 1: Revision and Exam Preparation
  • Summer Term 2: Final preparation for exams