Year 7

Year 8

Key Stage 4

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Wonder In Science

This unit is based on the book ‘Wonder’ and pupils will learn about:

• Characteristics
• Variation
• DNA models
• Extracting DNA
• Human eyes
• Human skeleton

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests  

Cells

In this unit you will learn about:

• Observing cells
• Plant and animal cells
• Specialised cells
• Movement of substances
• Unicellular organisms

In this unit you will learn about:

• The particle model
• States of matter
• Melting and freezing
• Boiling
• More changes of state
• Diffusion
• Gas pressure

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

In this unit you will learn about:

• Introduction to forces
• Squashing and stretching
• Drag and friction
• Forces at a distance
• Balanced and unbalanced forces

 Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Structure and Function of Body Systems

In this unit you will learn about:

• Levels of organisation
• Gas exchange
• Breathing
• Skeleton
• Movement: joints
• Movement: muscles

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Elements, Atoms and Compounds

In this unit you will learn about:

• Elements
• Atoms
• Compounds
• Chemical formulae

In this unit you will learn about:

• Comparing waves
• Sound and energy transfer
• Loudness and pitch
• Detecting sound
• Echoes and ultrasound

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

In this unit you will learn about:

• Adolescence
• Reproductive system
• Fertilisation and implantation
• Development of a foetus
• Menstrual cycle
• Flower and pollination
• Seed dispersal

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Reactions

In this unit you will learn about:

• Chemical reactions
• Word equations
• Burning fuels
• Thermal decomposition
• Conservation of mass
• Exothermic and endothermic reactions

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Light

In this unit you will learn about:

• Light
• Reflection
• Refraction
• The eye and the camera
• Colour

In this unit you will learn about:

• Acids and alkalis
• Indicators and pH
• Neutralisation
• Making salts

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Health and Lifestyle

In this unit you will learn about:

• Nutrients
• Food tests
• Unhealthy diet
• Digestive system
• Bacteria and enzymes in digestion
• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Smoking

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests   

The Periodic Table

In this unit you will learn about:

• Metals and non-metals
• Groups and periods
• Group 1 elements
• Group 7 elements
• Group 8/0 elements 

In this unit you will learn about:

• Charging up
• Circuits and current
• Potential difference
• Series and parallel
• Resistance
• Magnets and magnetic field
• Electromagnets
• Using electromagnets

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

In this unit you will learn about:

• Photosynthesis
• Leaves
• Plant minerals
• Chemosynthesis
• Aerobic respiration
• Anaerobic respiration
• Food chains and webs
• Disruption to food chains and webs
• Ecosystems for an element.

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Seperation techniques

In this unit you will learn about:

• Mixtures
• Solutions
• Solubility
• Filtration
• Evaporation and distillation
• Chromatography

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests  

Energy

In this unit you will learn about:

• Food and fuels
• Energy adds up
• Energy and temperature
• Energy transfer – particles
• Energy transfer – radiation
• Energy resources
• Energy and power
• Work, energy and machines

In this unit you will learn about:

• Competition and adaptation
• Adapting to change
• Variation
• Continuous and discontinuous variation
• Inheritance
• Natural selection
  Extinction

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

In this unit you will learn about:

• Acids and metals
• Metals and oxygen
• Metals and water
• Metal displacement reactions
• Extracting metals
• Ceramics
• Polymers
• Composites

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Motion and Pressure

In this unit you will learn about:

• Speed
• Motion graphs
• Pressure in gases
• Pressure in liquids
• Pressure in solids
• Turning forces

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests  

Space

In this unit you will learn about:

• The Night Sky
• The Solar System
• The Earth
• The Moon

In this unit you will learn about:

• The Earth and its atmosphere
• Sedimentary rock
• Igneous rock
• The rock cycle
• The carbon cycle
• Climate change
• Recycling

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 1

Key Concepts in Biology

In this unit you will learn about:

• How microscopy has allowed us to find out more about the sub-cellular structures found in plants and animals.
• The importance of enzymes in nutrition, growth and development.
• How enzymes are effected by temperature and why each enzyme only works on a certain type of molecule.
• How substances are carried by diffusion, osmosis and active transport.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Cells and Control Revision

In this unit you will learn about:

• Mitosis and its importance in growth, repair and asexual reproduction.
• How cells become specialised, and the importance of stem cells.
• How to identify different specialised cells in the nervous system and explain how the system works.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

States of Matter: Methods of Separating and Purifying Substances

In this unit you will learn about:

• How the arrangement and movement and energy of particles change during state changes.
• How to use melting points to tell the difference between mixtures and pure substances.
• How to identify substance using melting points and chromatography.
• How different methods of separation work.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table

In this unit you will learn about:

• How our ideas about atoms have changed over time.
• What is relative atomic mass
• How to calculate relative atomic mass for an element.

  In this unit you will learn about:

  How our ideas about atoms have changed over time.

  What is relative atomic mass

  How to calculate relative atomic mass for an element.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Ionic Bonding

In this unit you will learn about:

• How ionic bonds are formed
• The properties of ionic compounds

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 2

Natural Selection and Genetic Modification

In this unit you will learn about:

• Darwin’s theory of evolution.
• How different methods are used to investigate evolution.
• How organisms are classified.
• How selective breeding is carried out.
• How genetic modification is carried out.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Health, Disease and the Development of Medicine

In this unit you will learn about:

• How to define health.
• How some pathogens that cause diseases.
• How the spread of pathogens can be reduced or prevented.
• How the body is protected against infection.
• How the immune system works.
• How antibiotic work.
• How new medicines are developed.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Covalent Bonding and Types of Substances

In this unit you will learn about:

• How covalent bonds are formed.
• The properties of covalent compounds.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Acids and Alkalis

In this unit you will learn about:

• The ions in acids and alkalis, and how their concentrations are linked to pH.
• What happens in the reactions between acids and different types of bases.
• How different indicators can be used in acid-alkali titrations.
  How different soluble and insoluble salts can be prepared.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Motion

In this unit you will learn about:

• The difference between a vector and scalar quantity.
• How to calculate speed and acceleration.
• How to represent journeys through D-T and V-T graphs.
• How to use graphs to calculate speed, acceleration and distanced travelled.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 3

Forces and Motion

In this unit you will learn about:

• Newton’s Laws of Motion.
• How to calculate weight from an objects mass.
• The factors that affect the stopping distance of a vehicle.
• The dangers of large decelerations.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Waves

In this unit you will learn about:

• Waves and how they transfer energy and information.
• How to describe the characteristics of a wave.
• How the speed of a wave is related to its frequency and wavelength.
• How the speed of a wave is related to the time it takes to travel a certain distance.
• How waves are refracted at boundaries between different materials.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Reversible Reactions and Equilibrium 

In this unit you will learn about:

• The electromagnetic spectrum, including the uses of the different parts.
• The harmful effects of the waves in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Conservation of Energy

In this unit you will learn about:

• Permanent and induced magnets, and how to represent a magnetic field.
• The magnetic field around a current in a wire and the factors that affect it.
• How the fields from individual coils in a solenoid interact.
• How to use the power equation for transformers.
• How transformers are used in the national grid.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Calculation Involving Masses

In this unit you will learn about:

• How to use relative atomic masses to calculate the relative formula masses of elements and compounds.
• How to work out the empirical and molecular formula of a given compound.
• How to calculate the mass of reactants or products in a reaction.
• How to calculate the concentration of a solution.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 1

Cells and Control

In this unit you will learn about:

• Mitosis and its importance in growth, repair and asexual reproduction.
• How cells become specialised, and the importance of stem cells.
• How to identify different specialised cells in the nervous system and explain how the system works.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Genetics

In this unit you will learn about:

• How gametes are produced by meiosis.
• The structure of DNA.
• Mutations and how genes cause genetic variation.
• Why certain characteristics are passed down through families.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Natural Selection

In this unit you will learn about:

• Darwin’s theory of evolution.
• How different methods are used to investigate evolution.
• How organisms are classified.
• How selective breeding is carried out.
• How genetic modification is carried out.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Groups in the Periodic Table, Rates of Reaction and Heat Energy changes

In this unit you will learn about:

• The properties and reactions of the elements in groups 1,7 and 0.
• How the changes in conditions can affect the rate of reactions.
• The energy transfers that can occur during chemical reactions.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Fuels

In this unit you will learn about:

• The hydrocarbons found in crude oil and natural gas.
• How crude oil is separated into more useful fractions.
• The alkanes as a homologous series.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 2

Animal Coordination, Control and Homeostasis

In this unit you will learn about:

• The endocrine glands.
• How hormones are transported to their target organs.
• How the menstrual cycle is controlled.
• How hormones are used in contraception.
• Diabetes and how blood glucose concentration is controlled.   

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Ecosystems and Material Cycles

In this unit you will learn about:

• How ecosystems are organised.
• How communities are affected by biotic and abiotic factors.
• How the abundance and distribution of organisms are measured.
• Parasitism and mutualism.
• How humans can affect ecosystems and the importance of maintaining biodiversity.
• How materials are cycled through ecosystems.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Atmospheric Science

In this unit you will learn about:

• The problems caused by some atmospheric pollutants.
• Why the cracking of oil is carried out.
• The advantages and disadvantages of different fuels for cars.
• How the Earth’s atmospheric gases have changed in the past and how it is changing now.
• The causes and effects of climate change.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Calculations Involving Masses

In this unit you will learn about:

• How to use relative atomic masses to calculate the relative formula masses of elements and compounds.
• How to work out the empirical and molecular formula of a given compound.
• How to calculate the mass of reactants or products in a reaction.
• How to calculate the concentration of a solution.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Motion

In this unit you will learn about:

• The difference between a vector and scalar quantity.
• How to calculate speed and acceleration.
• How to represent journeys through D-T and V-T graphs.
• How to use graphs to calculate speed, acceleration and distanced travelled.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 3

Forces and Motion

In this unit you will learn about:

• Newton’s Laws of Motion.
• How to calculate weight from an objects mass.
• The factors that affect the stopping distance of a vehicle.
• The dangers of large decelerations.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Waves

In this unit you will learn about:

• Waves and how they transfer energy and information.
• How to describe the characteristics of a wave.
• How the speed of a wave is related to its frequency and wavelength.
• How the speed of a wave is related to the time it takes to travel a certain distance.
• How waves are refracted at boundaries between different materials.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Light and the EM Spectrum

In this unit you will learn about:

• The electromagnetic spectrum, including the uses of the different parts.
• The harmful effects of the waves in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

 Magnets and Magnetic fields

In this unit you will learn about:

• Permanent and induced magnets, and how to represent a magnetic field.
• The magnetic field around a current in a wire and the factors that affect it.
• How the fields from individual coils in a solenoid interact.
• How to use the power equation for transformers.
• How transformers are used in the national grid.

Pre-assessments

Marking episodes

End of topic tests

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 1

Forces and Elasticity

In this unit you will learn about:

• Elastic objects.
• How to calculate elastic potential energy.
• Hooke’s Law and complete a required practical investigating the extension of springs.

End of topic test

Electromagnetic Waves

In this unit you will learn about:

• Waves and how they transfer energy and information.
• How to describe the characteristics of a wave.
• How the speed of a wave is related to its frequency and wavelength.
• How the speed of a wave is related to the time it takes to travel a certain distance.
• How waves are refracted at boundaries between different materials.
• The electromagnetic spectrum, including the uses of the different parts.
• The harmful effects of the waves in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

End of topic test

Forces and Motion

In this unit you will learn about:

• Newton’s Laws of Motion.
• How to calculate weight from an object’s mass.
• The factors that affect the stopping distance of a vehicle.
• The dangers of large decelerations.

End of topic test

Homeostasis

In this unit you will learn about:

• The endocrine glands.
• How hormones are transported to their target organs.
• How the menstrual cycle is controlled.
• How hormones are used in contraception.
• Diabetes and how blood glucose concentration is controlled.

End of topic test

Rates of Reaction

In this unit you will learn about:

• Factors that affect the rate of a reaction.
• Collision theory.
• How catalysts affect the rate of a reaction.
• Reversible reactions and the Haber Process.

Paper 1 Mock Examinations in:

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 2

Genetics

In this unit you will learn about:

• How gametes are produced by meiosis.
• The structure of DNA.
• Mutations and how genes cause genetic variation.
• Why certain characteristics are passed down through families. 

End of topic test

Organic Chemistry and Analysis

In this unit you will learn about:

• The hydrocarbons found in crude oil and natural gas.
• How crude oil is separated into more useful fractions.
• The alkanes as a homologous series.
• How cracking can be used to supply the demand for shorter chain hydrocarbons.
• How chromatography can be used to separate substances.

Second C1 Mock

Ecology

In this unit you will learn about:

• How ecosystems are organised.
• How communities are affected by biotic and abiotic factors.
• How the abundance and distribution of organisms are measured.
• Parasitism and mutualism.
• How humans can affect ecosystems and the importance of maintaining biodiversity.
• How materials are cycled through ecosystems.

End of topic test

Using Resources

In this unit you will learn about:

• The Earth’s early atmosphere.
• How the Earth’s atmospheric gases have changed in the past and how it is changing now.

End of topic test

Paper 2 Mock Examinations in:

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Half Term

Topic

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Term 3

Biology B1 & B2 Preparation

• Consolidation and addressing misconceptions
• Revisiting required practicals
  Building exam technique

Exam questions and past papers

Chemistry C1 & C2 Preparation

• Consolidation and addressing misconceptions
• Revisiting required practicals
• Building exam technique

Exam questions and past papers

Physics P1 & P2 Preparation

• Consolidation and addressing misconceptions
• Revisiting required practicals
• Building exam technique

Exam questions and past papers

Misconceptions and consolidation of learning and investigations.

Exam questions and past papers