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…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaborative Approaches
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how triple science can raise attainment and become sustainable through strong collaboration from partner schools and engagement in relevant support programmes. The case study provides some background information about Ormesby School (Middlesbrough); the barriers…
Triple Science Case Study: Student Selection and Valuing Practical Work
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how enabling students to self-select onto the triple science course and providing them with meaningful opportunities for practical work in Key Stage Four, achievement and uptake in sciences at post-16 can increase. The case study includes some background information…
Triple Science Case Study: Leadership and CPD
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how the benefit of strong leadership and targeted professional development can improve specialist teachers’ capacities to deliver triple science effectively. The case study includes some background information about Northolt High School (Middlesex); the…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Model and Timetabling
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how remodelling the timetable and changing the structure of Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four can mean students are given the time and the opportunity to build their confidence in triple science and develop the skills required to be successful. The case study…
Triple Science Case Study: CPD and Effective Guidance
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how providing specialist teachers with the confidence to deliver the additional triple science units through professional development can develop all teachers in their capacity to deliver triple science effectively. Careful and tailored student guidance can also…
Triple Science Case Study: Leadership and Review
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how under strong departmental leadership and regular review of the Key Stage Four curriculum offer triple science has developed and how it has contributed towards the increased flexibility in science. The case study includes some background information about…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Models
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how trialling different curriculum models and providing additional time in Year Ten for students to grow and develop confidence with science, as well as deploying teaching staff effectively can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study provides…
Quick Guide: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at radioactive waste and examines the options for its disposal. It 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 nuclear power…
Quick Guide: Green Chemistry
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at our use of chemicals which is inevitable, whatever their source. Green, or sustainable, chemistry develops chemicals and processes capable of performing vital functions, while minimising social and environmental costs. This is a resource produced by current…