Triple Science Case Study: Tenbury High School, Worcestershire
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how career awareness advice before students make their Key Stage Four choices, after school skills and concepts revision clubs, and an impressive range of STEM enrichment activities in the local environment can lead to success in delivering triple science. The…
Triple Science Case Study: Stocksbridge High School
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how using feedback from the students (and staff) to change the curriculum model and providing more detailed advice during the Year Nine options process with regards the nature of the course can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study…
Triple Science Case Study: Pen Y Dre High School, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a focus on raising attainment in science, including looking specifically at literacy and Numeracy, after school skills and concepts revision clubs and a wide range of STEM enrichment activities, can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case…
Triple Science Case Study: Marden High School, North Shields
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how highlighting the different characteristics of the sciences and developing an enviable programme of enhancement and enrichment activities for students to enable them to make informed choices about progression can lead to success in delivering triple science.…
Triple Science Case Study: Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how adapting the curriculum to suit the needs of particular groups of students, recognising the importance of motivation and study skills when selecting students and planning well for future changes can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case…
Triple Science Case Study: Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, Bradford
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how capitalising on the enthusiasm of the science staff to increase uptake and including science in the options rather than as an ‘extra’ after school can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study provides some background information…
Triple Science Case Study: Balshaw’s School, Leyland
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how giving science a high profile to create enthusiasm for the subject in a large number of students, together with a whole school strategy of vigorously enhancing and enriching the curriculum, can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study…
Triple Science Case Study: Woodrush High School, Worcestershire
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a focus on providing adequate curriculum time for triple science, moving towards a three year Key Stage Four, together with developing students’ science enquiry skills from Year Seven can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration to Support Non-specialists
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study describes a network set up to support non-specialists teaching physics. The case study includes some background information about the schools involved in Stockport, supported by the local authority, how they produced a guide for addressing both basic knowledge and misconceptions…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration Using a Network ‘Blog’
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study describes a network of three high schools which worked to develop the use of virtual learning environments (VLEs) to support delivery of the triple science GCSEs. The case study includes some background information about the schools in Ilkeston (Derbyshire), and their…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration for Student Peer-Teaching
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study describes a network of schools and a sixth form college which focused on increasing interest in triple sciences by student peer-teaching. The case study includes some background information about Challney High School for Boys (Luton), and its partners, who focused on increasing…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration to Develop a Virtual School
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates a school’s collaboration with an external STEM enrichment provider, STEM undergraduate students and use of e-learning. The case study includes some background information about Villiers High School (Ealing) and its work with Exscitec (an organisation…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration Involving Higher Education
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates a three school partnership with higher education, involving a wide variety of activities including CPD, lesson-planning, enrichment activities and mutual observations. The case study includes some background information about the involvement of three Leicester…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration to Raise Career Awareness
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a collaboration of schools worked alongside the local authority, higher education and industry to try to raise awareness of science careers among students at Key Stage Three and so encourage more of them to opt for triple science GCSEs. Based in Cornwall,…
Triple Science Case Study: Using Student Voice
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school has used student questionnaires and focus groups to help develop a better understanding of student perceptions towards triple science, with the aim of raising the quality of teaching and learning. The case study includes some background information…
Triple Science Case Study: Planning Ahead on More Than One Front
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school has planned ahead and taken a wide range of actions to provide and improve triple science GCSEs, drawing on the skills of a well-developed science team. The case study includes some background information about St Michaels CE High School (Lancashire),…
Triple Science Case Study: Identifying Students Early
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school used a combination of identifying potential triple science students as early as Year Eight with student perspectives on the triple science courses and their reasons for choosing it. The case study includes some background information about Beal…
Triple Science Case Study: Inspiring Through Enhancement and Enrichment
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates the steps taken by a school in moving away from a stereotypical view of triple science as being academic and theoretical towards more exciting and engaging provision, and so attract more students to take up these GCSEs. It looks at the impact of developing a substantial…
Triple Science Case Study: Summary of Key Findings From a Range of Schools
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this 2007 report summarises the main findings from a number of case studies of how schools tackled the introduction of triple science and is intended to help other schools with their triple science GCSE provision. It discusses the overall issues that schools report (such as finding the time…
Triple Science Case Study: Providing Lessons Outside the School Day
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school provided extra lessons before school to dramatically increase the triple science take up, leading to greater progression to sciences post-16. The case study includes some background information about St Gregory’s Catholic High School (Warrington)…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaboration with the Maths Department
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school's science and mathematics departments collaborated to increase the time available for students taking triple science and so increased the level of attainment for students. The case study includes some background information about Littleover…
Triple Science Case Study: Steering Students Towards Triple Science
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school changed the options system to make triple science a more desirable choice, offered guidance to learners to encourage them to choose triple science, and improved the quality of teaching so students would want to study more science at Key Stage Four. The…
Triple Science Case Study: An Alternative Approach to Homework
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how a school has challenged students who reported finding science uninspiring, irrelevant and “easy but boring”. They used personal learning and thinking skills and a different approach to homework. The case study includes some background information…
Quick Guide: Micro-organisms in Industry
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide discusses how Microbes are increasingly important to industry, where they are used in a huge variety of processes ranging from food production to water treatment. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of biotechnology to provide teachers with…
Quick Guide: Medicinal Chemistry
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at how medicinal chemists use their technical skills and their knowledge of different organic chemical reactions to develop new small-molecule drugs to treat diseases. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of medicinal chemistry to provide…
Quick Guide: The Evolution of Human Behaviour
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at what makes humans special. There is a lot of debate among researchers about which mental (or cognitive) abilities separate humans from chimpanzees. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of behaviour to provide teachers with an understanding…
Quick Guide: Disasters and Diseases
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at the microbial species that are a special danger to human communities when arrangements for water supply and sewage disposal fail. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of health and diseases to provide teachers with an understanding…
Quick Guide: Animal Behaviour
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide discusses how the study of animal behaviour isn’t just about field trips to foreign places. Careful observations about the movement, feeding and social interactions of individual animals tells us interesting things about any species. This is a resource produced…
Quick Guide: Carbon Capture and Storage
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at how carbon capture may be used to tackle carbon dioxide emissions and is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner teaching out of subject or needing a refresher. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of carbon…
Quick Guide: Organ Transplantation
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at the development of transplants, immunosuppressive drugs and the ethics involved in the field. It is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of organ transplantation to…
Quick Guide: Biofuels
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner teaching out of subject or needing a refresher.The resource describes why we need biofuels, types of biofuels and current research. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field of…
Quick Guide: Water Quality and Climate Change
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at how the quality of our freshwater lakes, streams and rivers has deteriorated as a result of eutrophication. The quick guide is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner. This is a resource produced by current experts in the field…