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There are three modern and fully equipped Biology laboratories.
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Biology is taught as a separate science throughout
the Senior school by a team of specialist teachers.
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The emphasis in Lower School is to provide the
girls with opportunities to acquire the practical skills and scientific
techniques needed to underpin the work that they will encounter
at GCSE.
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Pupils are encouraged to develop their thinking
skills, through use of the ‘Thinking through Science’ programme.
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The use of ICT is encouraged, at all levels, to
support learning.
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During Year 8, an ecological investigation is
undertaken at Amersham Field Study Centre.
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For GCSE, pupils can choose to study Biology as
either a Separate Science, or as part of Double Award Combined
Science.
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At Advanced Level, the girls study the OCR syllabus,
which provides the opportunity of studying a module on Human Health
and Disease in Year 12 and a module on Mammalian Physiology in
Year 13. There is a practical course of internal assessment, which
involves one assessment in each year of the Sixth Form.
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Sixth Form
pupils have the opportunity of participating in the Biology Olympiad.
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Fieldwork
is undertaken during Year 13 at Juniper Hall Field Centre.
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Biology
is a very popular A level and most girls continue to study it for
A2, with a view to going on to study a medical course, of some
kind, at university.
