Science
Explore how the Science Department nurtures curious, capable learners through inquiry-based learning, enrichment activities, and competitions that stretch students beyond the classroom.
Science
The Science Department enables every BPian to be a passionate learner by providing an enriching and engaging student-centric Science curriculum for all levels. Through a wide range of innovative pedagogical approaches, rigorous performance tasks for continuous assessment and quality feedback, the department seeks to instil in students the right ways of learning Science through scientific inquiry.
Continuous assessment is carried out via termly Weighted Assessment (WA), designed with an eye on both Content and Process Outcomes. Not only will students be put through a series of rigorous, complex and demanding assessment tasks over each year, they also develop important 21st Century Competencies (21CC) manifested in the assessment design. The WA tasks are supplemented by Feedback Literacy Enabling tasks to improve assessment literacy amongst students. These processes ensure that students are provided with sufficient opportunities to develop the emerging 21CC across the Science curriculum, in alignment with the Desired Outcomes of Education.
The inquiry-based strategy is supplemented by a variety of enrichment activities and competition platforms to stretch students’ abilities beyond the syllabus requirements. The enrichment and competition platforms are anchored on an over-arching Science Talent Development Framework, designed to maximise the potential and bring out the best in our students.
In order to maximise the potential of higher readiness students, selected students will be nominated to join the Global Scholars Programme, an online awareness education initiative which aims to develop students’ global citizenship while enhancing critical 21st century skills in the contexts of Science content mastery, English language communication and technology proficiency. On Blended Learning Days, Science Interest Group students run Zoom lectures as an option for student-initiated learning for those interested to be exposed to higher level Science concepts.
In Upper Secondary, students are invited to participate in customised curricula on Physics, Chemistry and Biology that culminates in the opportunity to participate and represent the school in the various Science Olympiads. Other prestigious Science competitions include the National STEM Championship as well as ignITE Skills Challenge.