Science is mandatory for all students from Year 7 to Year 10.
In Years 11 and 12, students can choose from different science disciplines, including:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Physics.
Science is a great adventure, challenging us to expand our skills in critical and creative thinking.
Over the centuries, science has developed from the Natural Philosophy of Newton's time to a rigorous future focused process and an evolving body of knowledge, that provides explanations and a framework to understand the world.
At Ku-ring-gai High School students engage with scientific concepts and processes to develop skills as future global citizens.
Year 7-10
All students engage in effective, future focused teaching and authentic learning tasks to:
Foster students' sense of wonder and expand their natural curiosity about the world around them.
Enhance students' confidence in making evidence-based decisions about the influence of science in their lives.
Enable students to confidently respond to needs and opportunities when designing solutions relevant to science in their lives.
Year 11-12
Biology
Biology provides students with a contemporary and coherent understanding.
Chemistry
Chemistry provides students with a contemporary and coherent understanding of matter and its interactions, and attempts to explain and predict events at the atomic and molecular level. Learn the functioning, origins and evolution of living things.
Earth and environmental science
Earth and environmental science aims to provide an understanding of systems and processes in both aquatic and terrestrial environments and to explore changes that have occurred during Earth's history, including the evolution of organisms since the origin of life on Earth.
Physics
Physics aims to reveal the simplicity underlying the complexity of natural phenomena by applying patterns, models (including mathematical ones), principles, theories and laws to explain the physical behaviour of the universe.
