Science at Trinity

The Science Department at Trinity is one of the more successful departments in the school. We offer a full range of courses including the NQF Btec Level 2 in Applied Science, QCF Btec Level 3 in Applied Science (Forensics), GCSEs in Science, Additional Science and Separate Sciences and of course the three sciences at A level.

The Science Department is led by Ian Wood and assisted by two subject managers of Biology and Chemistry as well as a Key Stage 3 co-ordinator.

The Science Department consists of 16 teaching staff (2 of whom are part time) along with four full time technicians who help service the twelve laboratories across two sites.

The Department has excellent links with our feeder primary schools and our 6th formers deliver a series of entertaining and activity driven sessions to each school over the course of the year in conjunction with the Ogden Foundation with whom we have very strong links. The school is an Ogden Trust Hub School for the city and organises regular physics based events for schools in the city. We run an annual 6th form trip to CERN and have productive links with both universities here in Nottingham.

The uptake of Science in the sixth form is extremely high. Our current Yr11 cohort expected to return is 120 strong.

Subject / Numbers planning to study Science in Year 12 2015-2016 / Numbers currently studying the sciences
in Yr12 & Yr13
Chemistry / 60 / 82
Physics / 20 / 38
Biology / 65 / 98
Forensics / 12 / 25

Courses offered

Sixth Form

Physics (Edexcel )

Chemistry (OCR )

Nuffield Advanced Biology (Edexcel)

Btec Lv3 Applied Science (Forensics)

KS4

Twenty First Century Science Suite: separate sciences (OCR) 60% of cohors

Twenty First Century Science and Additional Science (OCR) 28% of the cohort

Btec Lv2 Applied Science (Principles of Science and Applications of Science 12% of the cohort

KS3

The department follows the Activate Scheme of work drawing on the online Kerboodle resources.

Accommodation

There are four purpose built sixth form laboratories.

Three refurbished laboratories in lower school two of which have a suite of networked PCs.

Four modern laboratories in upper school.

All rooms have projectors for computers and internet connection.

The Department is looking forward to moving into its new building later in 2016 with 6 purpose built science laboratories removing the split site element of our current provision.


Curriculum planning

Year Group / Allocated teaching hours per week
Yr7 / 3
Yr8 / 3
Yr9 / 4
Yr10 & 11 separate Sciences / 6
Yr10 & 11 Dual Award / 6
Yr10 & 11 Btec / 6
Yr12 & Yr13 / 5

The separate Science classes are taught by three individual subject specialists.

Results for 2011-12

GCSE

Subject / Cohort / Number of A* - C / % of A* - C
Biology / 104 / 97 / 93
Chemistry / 104 / 95 / 91
Physics / 104 / 90 / 86
Btec in Applied Science / 31 / 31 / 100
Science / 62 / 39 / 64
Additional Science / 61 / 39 / 64

A/S

Subject / A / B / C / D / E / U
Biology / 12 / 11 / 11 / 7 / 11 / 21
Chemistry / 19 / 10 / 7 / 5 / 8 / 8
Physics / 7 / 5 / 4 / 5 / 8 / 11

A2

Subject / A* / A / B / C / D / E / U
Biology / 5 / 6 / 8 / 11 / 9 / 9 / 1
Chemistry / 6 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 6 / 5 / 2
Physics / 3 / 2 / 0 / 3 / 2 / 2 / 1

Job description

The successful candidate will be required to commit fully to the life of the Department and to contribute to extra-curricular activities within school as well as teaching across all year groups.

This is a very busy, lively and supportive department where a collegiate and team ethos pervades all that we do.