Report from The Marches School
Report from the Marches School & Technology College, Shropshire, June 2007
Anthony Snowden reports on the GCSE Science course ...
This year we have been running the GCSE Science course and Entry Level. Next year we plan to run the same courses for year 10, and Additional Science and Additional Applied Science for Year 11.
The year 10s have valued the relevance of the GCSE Science course, the opportunity for pupil input, and the transferable skills they've learnt.
Staff have valued the new ideas and found the GCSE Science course stimulating to teach.
We're finding some of the coursework challenging, tweaking activities so as to make them into good data tasks.
About a 30% of our pupils will go on to A-level, and about 50 out of 160 will go on to Science A-levels.
Quote from a parents' evening last term
"You have made life at home more difficult - my daughter now knows how to construct an effective argument!"
