What are lessons like in this subject?
You’ll 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 will I study?
In Year 12, you will study:
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Foundations in chemistry including atoms, compounds and molecules and bonding and structure.
- The periodic table and energy including periodicity, qualitative analysis and reaction rates and equilibrium.
- Core organic chemistry, including hydrocarbons, alcohols and haloalkanes and infrared spectroscopy (IR) and mass spectrometry (MS).
In Year 13, you will study:
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Physical chemistry and transition elements including enthalpy, entropy and free energy and redox and electrode potentials.
- Organic chemistry and analysis, including aromatic compounds, carboxylic acids and esters, polymers and NMR.
Chemistry lessons are very engaging and interesting and taught in a way that enables content to stick, even for longer or more complex processes. Information is regularly revisited to help recall of past content and support is available for more challenging topics.
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