Biology

Course summary

Biology at WHGS is taught during six x 100 minute lessons per two-week timetable cycle, by two different teachers. Lessons are taught between three fully equipped laboratories and two standard classrooms. The A Level in Biology at WHGS follows the two-year linear format. The course comprises eight topics; four in each year. There is also a series of twelve assessed practicals, in addition to other practicals, which take place throughout the two years. There will be questions about these practicals in the internal assessments and external examinations. The external examinations are sat at the end of Year 13, but internal assessments occur at the end of topics and at the end of Year 12. Year 12 Topic 1 – Biological molecules Topic 2 – Cells Topic 3 – Organisms and their environment Topic 4 – Genetics and variation Year 13 Topic 5 – Energy transfers within and between organisms Topic 6 – Organisms and changes in environments Topic 7 – Genetics, populations and ecosystems Topic 8 – Control of gene expression