KS4 – Physics

Subject Intent

Our 5-year spiral curriculum is built upon the nine principal ideas in Science. These ideas weave through the years, underpinning and reinforcing all aspects of the lessons. Our curriculum aims to take students on a journey of exploring and investigating natural phenomena. For us it is essential that students develop secure deep understanding to make genuine progression in all these areas, by inspiring the curious and stimulating excited minds. Students will develop the confidence to explain what they observe, predict how things will behave and analyse their results. Throughout their journey, students will be empowered to recognise for themselves the progress they have made in securing the concepts met and start to build the interconnecting links between the fundamental ideas. Each step of the curriculum is explored in the context of past, present, and future phenomena, building in complexity as the journey continues. Our knowledge rich curriculum, is underpinned by high quality text that will enable students to communicate their new insight through their writing, modelling and practical skills.

KS4 Subject Narrative

Our 5-year curriculum at KS4 expands and builds upon the deepening scientific knowledge and understanding introduced in the earlier key stages for each of the three disciplines.  Our lessons allow all students to be taught the essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of Science. Through practicals and theory-based lessons we explore more complex and diverse phenomena of the world around us.

Year 10 – Please click here to view the curriculum map for year 10 Physics
Year 11 – Please click here to view the curriculum map for year 11 Physics