Llantwit Major Science Department - Key Stage Three

Llantwit Major Science department strives to offer our students an outstanding range of scientific experiences at Key Stage 3. The department builds on the achievements made at Key Stage 2 and gives the students a variety of experiences that promotes development of scientific knowledge and key skills for all our pupils. 

We have introduced a new program of study in Key Stage 3 to broaden our student's scientific awareness and to rapidly develop key skills needed to support students throughout their educational career.  

The program of study for students is designed to stimulate the imagination about science and technology. In order to give our students the best opportunity we have detailed the topics covered in each year group and included a copy of the student work booklet. 

Please also use the useful links at the bottom of the page.

Year 8 & 9 exam - Revision topic areas

 

You will have a science examination during the week starting 7^th June – this is the first week after half term

 

Your science teachers will tell you exactly when this will be

 

In one of your science lessons you will sit a written exam paper which will take the lesson to complete

 

It will have a mixture of questions from the topics you have covered in science:

 

• Year 8 - you will have to revise topics from years 7 and 8
• Year 9- you will have to revise topics from years 7, 8 and 9

 

To help you revise for these papers the following table shows you what the main topics are and where you can find revision materials. 

 

Topic area covered in year 7, 8 and 9	Click on BBC bitesize – KS3 Science	Next click on these Sub-units to access revision materials	Helpful notes
Life processes and cells	Organisms, behaviour and health	Life processes Cells to systems	Only need MRS GREN section from life processes
Energy	Energy, electricity and forces	Energy, transfer and storage	Energy transfer and storage section
Electricity	Energy, electricity and forces	Energy, transfer and storage	Electric current and voltage section
States of matter	Chemical and material behaviour	The particle model Behaviour of matter	All from these two sections
Feeding relationships	Organisms, behaviour and health	Food chains	You don’t need: respiration in plants or toxic materials sections
Sound	Energy, electricity and forces	Energy transfer and storage	Energy basics section
Drugs	Organisms, behaviour and health	Diet, drugs and health	Smoking and health and drugs and health sections
Mixtures and compounds	Chemical and material behaviour	Atoms and elements Compounds and mixtures	NOT the reactivity series of metals or metals and non-metal oxides sections
Food, diet and health	Organisms behaviour and health	Diet, drugs and health	Nutrition and effects of a poor diet
Pollution	The environment, the Erath and the universe	Changes in the environment	All of the sections
Forces	Energy, electricity and forces		NOT pressure or moments
Acids and alkalis	Chemical and material behaviour	Acids, bases and metals

 

If you have any problems finding this work or understanding what to do you must see your science teacher for help before half term.

 

Good luck and happy revising!

 

( Unit pupil booklets are being added over the next two weeks )

Year 7

Unit title	Booklet
Skills
States of matter
Life processes and how our bodies are built
Electricity
Food and diet
Energy
Acids and alkalis

 

Year 8 - Biology

Unit title	Booklet
Feeding relationships
Drugs Unit
Environment Adaptations
Energy and respiration

 

Year 8 - Chemistry

Unit title	Booklet
Elements and compounds
Mixtures
Changes
Sustainability

 

Year 8 - Physics

Unit title	Booklet
Sound
New technologies
Light
Astronomy
Energy

 

Year 9  - Biology

Unit title	Booklet
Pollution
Biological advances

 

Year 9 - Chemistry

Unit title	Booklet
States of matter
Chemical patterns
Patterns of chemical change

 

Year 9 - Physics

Unit title	Booklet
Forces
Work / energy
Magnetism
Pressure / moments

 

Useful links 

• Science Bitesize
• Science in the news