Science and its applications play an important part in our everyday lives at work, at leisure and in the home. Scotland has a proud heritage in this area and science remains central to our economic future and to our health and wellbeing as individuals and as a society. Learning in this curricular area supports students to develop an interest and understanding of the living, material and physical world.

Students engage in a wide range of collaborative investigative tasks which allows the development of important skills.  This in-turn develops creative, inventive and enterprising young people preparing them for a world where skills and knowledge of the sciences are needed in all economic sectors.

The aim is to provide a classroom climate of creativity and innovation that will

• Develop in students a curiosity and understanding of their environment and their place in it
• Support a secure knowledge and understanding of ‘big ideas’ and scientific concepts
• Develop skills of enquiry and investigation using practical techniques
• Develop skills in the accurate use of scientific language
• Apply safety measures and take actions to control risks and hazards
• Recognise the role science plays in our lives, the environment and on society
• Develop and understanding of the Earth’s’s resources and the need for responsible use of them
• Allow the expression of opinion and decision making based upon sound understanding
• Allow appropriate use of technology
• Provide opportunities for collaborative and individual leaning
• Provide opportunities to analyse, explore and reflect

Principal Teachers:  Miss Angela Wallerstein (PTC Sciences) and Mrs Wendy Easterbrook (PT BGEd Sciences)

Main Subjects in Broad General Education: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics and Science

Main Subjects in Senior Phase: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Human Biology, Lab Skills and Physics