What are lessons like in this subject?
You’ll experience a range of activities that are planned to both challenge and develop your confidence of Chemistry.
New content is introduced using comprehensive booklets of notes, examples and exercises, and lessons are planned to help you develop strategies for applying your new knowledge to a range of exam questions. Throughout the course, you will undertake a number of practical activities per term.
These are designed to meet the requirements of the Practical Endorsement, develop strong laboratory skills and to further develop your understanding of the practical applications of Chemistry.
All of these activities will utilise specialist chemical equipment and dedicated teaching labs.
What will I study?
In Year 12, you will study:
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Foundations in chemistry including atoms, compounds and molecules and bonding and structure.
- The periodic table and energy including periodicity, qualitative analysis and reaction rates and equilibrium.
- Core organic chemistry, including hydrocarbons, alcohols and haloalkanes and infrared spectroscopy (IR) and mass spectrometry (MS).
In Year 13, you will study:
- Practical skills in chemistry.
- Physical chemistry and transition elements including enthalpy, entropy and free energy and redox and electrode potentials.
- Organic chemistry and analysis, including aromatic compounds, carboxylic acids and esters, polymers and NMR.
A-Level Chemistry expands on GCSE topics in a way that we are able to fully understand the importance of Chemistry in both industry and nature. We learn Physical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and although it can seem challenging at first, the teachers are really able to bring chemistry to life in the classroom and share their enthusiasm for the subject. We are also able to conduct various laboratory experiments which help us to understand the different reactions and processes that we learn within lessons.
Anna Grace Gilroy, St. Wilfrid’s Catholic High School
Chemistry
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