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The benefits of studying Secondary Science
Our Secondary Science homeschooling course will fire your child’s curiosity about phenomena in the world around them and offer them opportunities to find explanations.
It will engage them at many levels, linking direct practical experience with scientific ideas. Experimentation and modelling are used to develop and evaluate explanations, encouraging critical and creative thought.
They will discover how scientific ideas contribute to technological change – affecting industry, business and medicine and improving quality of life. It will also teach them to question and discuss issues that may affect their own lives, the directions of societies and the future of the world.
Three of the modules for each year include a practical section which involves setting up an experiment and recording the results. In each case there is a practical worksheet to complete as part of the assignment for that module.
At the end of Year 9 of Secondary Science you will receive a report on your child’s progress. A report on the average grade achieved by your child at the end of Years 7 or 8 is available on request.
Key topics covered
In this course Biology, Chemistry and Physics are studied within the context of developing your child’s:
- Scientific attitudes
- Experimental and investigative skills
- Skills of analysis and evaluation
- Understanding of measurement
The syllabus and hours of study
- Our Secondary Science homeschooling course assumes no prior knowledge and starts from the basics.
- The course follows the English National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 Science.
- Allow for up to 4 – 5 hours per week of’ study time for your child to complete each year of Secondary Science plus additional time for completing assignments.
- We find that most children can complete the course in 9 months.
Course Fees
The fee for Secondary Science is £495 via instalments. There is a discount of 5% for payment in full reducing the fee to £470. Read more about our fees and discounts, see what our fees include or use our fee calculator to find out the total cost of the courses you select. If you’re not delighted with your course, let us know within 45 days and we’ll refund your course fee (less the cost of the books).
Steve Dixon
Secondary Maths
Our Secondary Maths homeschooling course will help your child get the key building blocks for Maths in place. Mathematics equips your child with uniquely powerful ways to describe, analyse and change the world. It can stimulate moments of pleasure and satisfaction when they solve a problem for the first time, discover a more elegant solution, or notice hidden connections. Students with a solid understanding of maths are able to think independently in applied and abstract ways, and can reason, solve problems and assess risk.
Secondary History
Our Secondary History homeschooling course will help students develop a chronological overview and to make connections within and across different periods and societies. History fires children’s curiosity and imagination, moving and inspiring them with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past. It helps them develop their own identities through an understanding of history at personal, local, national and international levels.
Secondary Geography
The study of our Secondary Geography homeschooling course (English National curriculum Key Stage 3) helps young people make sense of a complex and dynamically changing world. It builds on your child’s own experiences to enable them to investigate places at all scales, from the personal to the global.
Secondary French
Studying our Secondary French Homeschooling course (English National Curriculum Key Stage 3) is an ideal preparation for IGCSE French studies. Communicating in French will help your child get to know the French people and the French culture. Learning another language, such as French, will open your child’s mind to new ideas and new ways of looking at the world.
Tarun has been doing Year 7 and 8 English, Maths and Science with Wolsey Hall. He is enjoying his courses and loves the flexibility the whole homeschooling program brings. He is able to plan his learning at his own pace, and plan his day well to accommodate his other interests of playing the Violin and Piano, reading and playing games. The online material in terms of textbooks, videos, the course plan and support from his tutors is helping him get past his studies with ease. During the peak Covid times when amazon deliveries were stopped the online virtual library of Wolsey was a boon to him as he loves to read.
Deepali Patel, Secondary Parent
India
Contact us
If you’re thinking of enrolling your child at Wolsey Hall Oxford and you’d like to know more about what we do or how to enrol, please just get in touch. We’re ready to enrol new pupils throughout the academic year.
