Subject Intent: Why Chemistry?
The Chemistry curriculum allows students to develop an understanding of physical, inorganic and organic chemistry.
It provides many transferable skills required for a range of careers. Teaching students鈥� skills in critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and organisation prepares them well for the next steps that Chemistry can offer. These include careers in medicine, engineering, research, pharmacology and support the growing shortage in STEM in Yorkshire.
What will I study?
In Year 12, you will study:
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Foundations in chemistry including atoms,听compounds and molecules and bonding and structure.听
- The periodic table and energy including听periodicity, qualitative analysis and reaction rates and equilibrium.
- Core organic chemistry, including hydrocarbons,听alcohols and haloalkanes and infrared spectroscopy (IR) and mass spectrometry (MS).
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Physical chemistry and transition elements听including enthalpy, entropy and free energy and redox and electrode potentials.
- Organic chemistry and analysis, including听aromatic compounds, carboxylic acids and esters, polymers and NMR.
Chemistry
Please note: Subject videos have been filmed from colleges across our Trust.
What are lessons like in this subject?
You鈥檒l experience a range of activities that are planned to both challenge and develop your confidence of Chemistry. New content is introduced using comprehensive booklets of notes, examples and exercises, and lessons are planned to help you develop strategies for applying your new knowledge to a range of exam questions.
Throughout the course, you will undertake a number of practical activities per term. These are designed to meet the requirements of the Practical Endorsement, develop strong laboratory skills and to further develop your understanding of the practical applications of Chemistry. All of these activities will utilise specialist chemical equipment and dedicated teaching labs.
What our
students
I find it very interesting and engaging, it teaches me Chemistry in much greater detail than GCSE, addressing some concepts and questions I鈥檝e had over the years. I strongly recommend this A-level to all the Science types of people; you鈥檒l enjoy it if you put in the effort and learn the content.
Oliver Lightfoot, South Axholme
