Biology
Year 7
In Year 7, all students follow a Combined Science programme. Please see here for further information.
Curriculum Content
Below is the curriculum content studied each term from Year 8 to 11.
In Years 8 & 9, Biology, Chemistry and Physics are taught as separate specialist subjects, with an hour a week timetabled to each. Students continue to study all three specialisms through to triple award GCSE at the end of Year 11.
At GCSE we study the AQA Biology Specification.
|
Year Group |
Term 1 |
Term 2
|
Term 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
8 |
Gas exchange systems and cellular respiration |
The skeletal and muscular systems |
Relationships in an ecosystem |
|
9 |
Photosynthesis |
GCSE Cell biology |
Infection and response |
|
10 |
Organisation |
Bioenergetics | Variation and Ecology |
|
11 |
Homeostasis |
Inheritance and evolution and Humans effect on the environment |
Revision and Exams |
Students also have to complete 8 required practicals that may be assessed in detail in the exam. They are as follows:
RP1 - Microscopy
RP2 - Microbiology
RP3 - Osmosis
RP4 - Food Tests
RP5 - Enzymes
RP6 - Photosynthesis
RP7 - Reaction time
RP8 - Plant responses
RP9 - Sampling organisms
RP10 - Decay
GCSE Biology is examined as two separate papers, at the end of Year 11.
Paper |
Length |
Marks |
Weighting |
Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
1hr 45m | 100 | 50% | B1 - B4 |
2 |
1hr 45m | 100 | 50% | B5 - B7 |