Curious Scientists,
Confident Schools

A science department is three subjects, one laboratory, one technician and one timetable to fit them all into. It has more scope for inconsistency than any other department in the school — units required in physics and tolerated in biology, equations written as symbols in one room and words in the next.

This booklet is written for the whole department at once. A head of science can read it as a curriculum and quality-assurance document; a teacher can open it at the page they need while setting up period four. The two GCSE routes are compared from the specifications themselves, including the one almost nobody outside the department understands.

Written to

The current GCSE and A Level science specifications

Intended for

For department CPD, planning and curriculum review

Extent

64 pages · 61 sections