Ryedale School

Ryedale School is committed to combining the very best educational provision with high expectations and traditional values. In doing so we challenge and support students both to fulfil their academic potential and become exemplary young people of whom we can all be proud.This unites us in our commitment to ‘Aspire and Achieve’

Ryedale School is committed to combining the very best educational provision with high expectations and traditional values.The Ryedale Values of Honesty, Kindness and Respect are woven into the fabric of our community.A creative and inclusive atmosphere in which individual talents are nurtured and allowed to flourish. We believe in providing the right blend of challenge and support to enable all learners to maximise their potential in every aspect of school life.Thriving art, music and technology departments have a huge impact on the life of the school, creating exciting opportunities both inside the classroom and as extra-curricular experiences.

Science

Science

Our Vision

We are privileged as the science department at Ryedale school, to teach young people the wonders of the Universe and how everything in it works.  We want all our students to have the science knowledge to enter the great scientific debates of our time, to enable them to make informed decisions about how science and technology impacts our lives. There has never been a more exciting and important time to be working in science and we encourage our students to consider a career in the many disciplines of science, or to make use of their science skills in alternative settings. 

 

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie 

 

 

 

The Science Curriculum

Head of Science

Dr Richard Beal,

rbeal@ryedale-rlt.co.uk

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GCSE Course Information

Combined Science

All combined science students will follow the new GCSE specification for science, leading to 2 GCSEs.  

The course alternates between biology, chemistry and physics, with each being further divided into discrete topics.  

The course covers a wide range of fundamental scientific principles relevant to all our lives; it provides a solid foundation of science literacy and gives insight as to how scientists develop an understanding of the world we live in. 

By the completion of the course, students will have gained a broad body of scientific knowledge and understanding across the three sciences of biology, chemistry and physics. 

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/combined-science-trilogy-8464

 

Separate Sciences

 

Separate science will be taught alongside the content for the combined science award, so that students get the deeper understanding of scientific concepts. Knowledge that will be beneficial for those students going on to study science at A level.  

This course will lead to a separate GCSE in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Students will study a range of topics including: cutting-edge gene technologies, research in space, production of chemicals used in everyday life and new energy technologies for sustaining our energy needs in years to come. 

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/biology-8461

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/chemistry-8462

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-8463

Extra-Curricular and Enrichment

Year 7/8 Science Club

KS4 Study Club
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Gale Lane, York, North Yorkshire YO62 7SL

01439 771 665

ryedale@arete.uk

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