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Science Department

Departmental Staff

  • Mr Martin Morris
  • Miss Kate McBride
  • Mr David Dickson
  • Mrs Laura Teague
  • Mrs Deirdre McKenna
  • Mrs Louise Traynor
  • Mrs Kelly Barras
  • Mrs Martina McManus
  • Mrs Mary Devlin

KS3 Science

Brief Overview of courses

What will I study?

Year 8 Year 9 Year 10
Introduction to Science. What is Science?

The Microscope and Cells

States of Matter

Electricity and Magnetism

Separating Mixtures

Chemical Reactions

Forces and Energy

Reproduction in Plants and Animals

Ecology and Habitats

Elements and compounds

Temperature and Materials

The Human Body, digestion and respiration

The Solar System, the moon and the seasons

Plants making their own food

The Science fair

 

The chemical reactions of metals and the extraction of metals

Classification of living organisms

Genetics and Inheritance

Making Electricity

Neutralisation reactions

Microbes and disease

Measuring speed

Pressure

Levers and moments

How will I be assessed?

There are five formal Assessments throughout the year, in addition your teacher will be assessing you informally during each lesson and your notebook will be marked.

Useful links

The CBS are successful at the North west SCIFEST@College event

The 37 Year 9 scientists who were the winners in the Christian Brothers school science fair travelled to St Mary’s College in Derry on Friday12th June. Here they met the top science students in the North West and they received 3 top prizes to acknowledge their hard work and enterprise.

Mrs D McKenna’s group from 9F,  Gearoid Dolan, Sean McCullagh and Conor O’Brien investigated the use of a propeller system to drop aid into remote areas won the Intel Award for the best Physical Science or Technology project.

9F

9F

Mrs M McManus’s group from 9C, Noel Gallagher, Ben Dolan, Darragh Ward and Sean Bogan won the Newstalk Best Communicators Award, they investigated the value of fertilisers on plant growth.

9C

9C

The group from 9E, Sean Diamond, Ronan Maguire and Rory Sheehan were guided by Mrs P Curran in their investigation of Solar Ovens as a way to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. They won the Overall SciFest Award sponsored by the Seagate Corporation’s Award and a trip to the NSEA in the National Exhibition Centre in Birminghan next term! The Head of Science, Mr Martin Morris expressed great satisfaction in the pupils achievements, “ The North West SciFest is a very prestigious event and the standards are increasing year on year. We have had on-going success in recent years winning the ‘Best Overall School in 2013’ and several other awards  but this is our highest achieving year to date. This type of event gives the pupils first-hand experience on planning and carrying out research to investigate and problem solve. We are looking forward to going to Birmingham to compete in an international event.”

9E

9E

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