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The document links physics learning to healthcare science and the world of work through careers teaching, project days, and partner experiences. It also outlines literacy and numeracy threads, required practical activities, and remote learning support via revision guidance and online resources.","GCSE Physics Course Information  \nCourse Overview  \n● Exam Board – AQA  \n● Usual Age Range – 14 to 16  \n● Qualification – One GCSE  \n● Curriculum Time – Three 50-minute lessons per week in class plus work in Independent Learning Time  \n● Assessment – Two 1-hour-45-minute examinations taken at the end of the two-year course  \n● Grading – Reformed Liner GCSE Scale of 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. UTC students taking Foundation Tier examinations will be awarded within the range of 1 to 5. UTC students taking Higher Tier examinations will be awarded within the range of 4 to 9.  \n● Full specification-[https://fi](https://fi)[lestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/physics/specifications/AQA-8463-SP-2016.PDF](lestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/physics/specifications/AQA-8463-SP-2016.PDF)  \nCurriculum Intent  \nThe intent of GCSE Physics is to give UTC students an opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the content within the following four fundamental areas that are further split into topics and to be able to apply this understanding to explain physical phenomena:  \n● Energy and energy resources  \n● Particles at work  \n● Forces in action  \n● Waves, electromagnetism and space  \nAt the UTC we specifically intend students to appreciate the subject’s relevance to the world of work, in particular healthcare science. Healthcare science careers are explicitly taught within relevant topics in the GCSE Physics sequence of learning. Students will also have direct first-hand experience of our healthcare science partners through project days and other aspects of UTC life such as our extensive UTC extra programme or via our assessed non-GCSE technical healthcare science curriculum. A variety of careers outside this specialism are also taught in appropriate topics in GCSE Physics so students have an appreciation of how physics relates to the wider world of work so they can make an informed choice to the career they would like to pursue.  \nA further intent is to motivate all students to pursue further study in physics beyond GCSE, irrespective of prior attainment. All students are motivated through the study of separate science GCSE Physics; commonly known as a triple science, as GCSE Physics is available at Higher Tier and Foundation Tier at this UTC.  \nSuggested destinations after completion of this course include progression onto a level 3 course at the UTC such as A-level Physics along with the other related A-level sciences of A-level Biology and A-level Chemistry or Medical Science.  \nThroughout GCSE Physics students are encouraged to develop their literacy skills. Students are regularly exposed to reading material in class and extended writing activities such as experimental write ups. Extended response questions allow students to demonstrate their ability to construct and develop a sustained line of reasoning which is coherent, relevant, substantiated and logically structured. Through the explicit teaching of specific physics key words as each topic is taught students demonstrate their understanding of a growing chemistry vocabulary as topics are taught through carefully designed written tasks, as well as verbally through questioning techniques used by their teacher. This love of reading is further developed by both non-fiction and fiction physics related titles that have been carefully selected by their physics teachers that are available to borrow in our Learning Resource Centre.  \nThe following five fundamental numeracy threads running through all three GCSE sciences are taught via the context of GCSE Physics in collaboration with our mathematics specialists. These are reinforced further albeit through a complementary subject in GCSE Biology and GCSE Chemistry:  \n● Arithmetic and numerical computation  \n● Handling data  \n● Algebra  \n● Graphs  \n● Geometry and trigonometry  \nFor example, in GCSE Physics UTC students may draw and analyse a straight-line graph of the temperature against work done in the specific heat capacity practical. 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