Godstowe School Shrubbery Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP13 6PR Tel: 01494 529273

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Godstowe School Shrubbery Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP13 6PR Tel: 01494 529273

Science

From Year 3, Science lessons take place in large, purpose-built laboratories with a fully resourced prep room and technician. Seniors enjoy separate biology, chemistry and physics lessons, including microelectronics. Our school grounds offer opportunities for observing and investigating the natural world, with pond dipping being especially exciting, when tadpoles, newts, pond skaters and other living creatures are discovered.

Our philosophy is 'learn by doing' and 'if it is fun, it will be remembered'.  We aim to teach an understanding of the world around us, and to develop in our pupils an ability to think, investigate and evaluate.

Science lessons at Godstowe aim to stimulate and inspire. As well as carrying out experiments and investigations, we teach science using a wide variety of other approaches. Interactive DVDs are very popular, as is using the data logger to discover, for example, which materials insulate heat the best, or which class is the noisiest!


Exciting trips and residential visits

Each year, our seniors spend a week in North Yorkshire, which provides a wonderful opportunity to study seashore and freshwater animals at close hand and to discover how well they are adapted to living in their environment. 

Year 6 classes spend a day at the Natural History Museum in London, visiting a range of galleries, whilst focusing on human development from embryo to adult.