Biology

Course summary

Lower sixth: · Module 1: Development of practical skills in Biology – investigating how processes work · Module 2: Foundations in Biology – cells, cellular processes and biological molecules · Module 3: Exchange and transport – how species use and remove various substances · Module 4: Biodiversity, evolution and disease – how life and the natural world interact. This will potentially involve an ecological fieldwork residential expedition to Cumbria’s AONB to gain some hands-on experience of how our environment is changing. Upper sixth: · Module 1: Development of practical skills in biology – investigating how processes work · Module 5: Communication, homeostasis and energy - organisms responding to changes in their internal and external environments · Module 6: Genetics, evolution and ecosystems – understanding our genetic make up; history and future. You will be taught by both of Dixie’s Biology teachers, Mr Bailey and Miss Galpin. Module delivery is designed so each teachers’ lessons complement each other in a spiral curriculum format that revisits and retrieves understanding to build and supplement your progress. You will receive nine lessons of Biology per week in specialist laboratories. You will be provided with your own personal text book, lab book, lab coat and digital resources.