Curriculum Guides :: Wesgreen International School.

SCIENCE

Content

First Term

Laboratory procedures
Sound and Hearing
Light
Heating and cooling
Magnets and electromagnets
Rocks and weathering
The rock cycle * to be continued in term 2

Second Term

Food and digestion
Respiration
Microbes and diseases
Ecological relationships
Atoms and elements
Compounds and mixtures

Assessment	1 st Term	2 nd Term
Tests	5, one per topic	5, one per topic
Homework	One per topic	One per topic
Copybook/Class work	One per topic	One per topic
Practical	3	3
Project/Display	1	1

Notes:

Tests:

1. One per topic.

2. All tests to be checked and approved by HOD before being administered.

3. All tests to be signed and dated by the marker.

4. All tests to be signed by parents.

Marking:

1. Copybooks once a week, signed and dated.

Assessment	1 st Term	2 nd Term	Weighting
Tests	5, one per topic	5, one per topic	50
Quizzes	5	5	10
Homework /Class work	One per topic	One per topic	10
Practical	3	3	20
Project/Display	1	1	10
End-of-term Exam	100	100	100

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