At KS3 (Years 8, 9 & 10), pupils study Forces, Energy, Electricity, Sound, Light, Motion and Space. Good importance is attached to practical investigation
allowing for group work.
At GCSE (Years 11 & 12), following the CCEA specification, the topics studied at KS3 are developed further with new topics like radioactivity &
geophysics being introduced.
Again following the CCEA AS & A2 Specification, Year 13 & 14 students develop further the topics studied for GCSE with Particle Physics, Quantum
Physics and Fields being introduced.
Studying Physics can lead not only to a career in pure science, but also areas such as engineering, architecture, finance and computing.
Pupils in the past have had the opportunity to go to the Physics Olympiad in Dublin and take part in the Sentinus Team R&D scheme as well as attending
QUB for special seminars and visiting the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.