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Knowledge, skills and understanding
Electricity
Forces and motion
Light and sound

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Within the realm of teaching, it’s vital that pupils explore scientific enquiry through topics like life processes and organisms, substance characteristics, and natural phenomena.

Health and safety guidelines are always to be observed in this subject. During the initial stage, students engage with, scrutinise, and inquire about organisms, materials, and natural events. They start to collaboratively gather evidence to address questions, relating these to foundational scientific concepts. They assess the validity of evidence and debate the fairness of tests or comparisons. To deepen their understanding of scientific notions, they refer to relevant materials. Ideas are articulated using scientific terminologies, illustrations, graphs, and tables.

Electricity
Students should learn:

  • a) about commonplace devices that are powered by electricity
  • about basic linear circuits which include batteries, wires, light sources and additional elements [Additional note: for instance, alerting buzzers, small motors]
  • the function of a switch in interrupting a circuit.

Forces and Movement
Students should grasp:

  • the motion characteristics of common objects [Additional note: like cars accelerating, decelerating, or altering their path
    links to other subjects:
  • Ma3 Shape, space and measures
  • Ma3 Shape, space and measures
  • the concept that forces can be categorised into pushes and pulls
    the understanding that motion alterations, whether accelerations, decelerations or directional shifts, have a reason behind them [Additional note: such as a forceful push or pull].

Light and Acoustics

  • It’s essential for students:
  • Light and dark
  • to recognise various sources of light, with the Sun being a primary example
  • to understand that darkness is simply a lack of light
  • Sound Production and Perception
  • to acknowledge the diverse nature and origins of sounds

ICT Opportunity
to understand that sounds emanate from their sources, weakening in intensity over distance, and are perceived once they reach our ears.

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Why Thomas Keith Independent School?

  • Small class sizes: the maximum number of students is 19 and most classes are much smaller than that. We do not have lecture style classes with hundreds of students like many other online schools.
  • Primary, Secondary, and Sixth Form at a top international private school teaching the British curriculum.
  • GCSE and A Level – Internationally recognised qualifications sought after by top universities and companies around the globe.
  • High-quality British education in your home – give your child the best start in life.
  • Live timetabled classes online with real teachers.
  • Friendly, experienced, and dedicated teachers.
  • Classes are also recorded for consolidating the subject material, revision, and catching up when absent.
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  • Parents have more say in their children’s education and friends.
  • Benefits of Homeschooling without the stress on parents to teach (and attempt to become experts in) all subjects.
  • Flexibility and Convenience: Study online from anywhere in the world.
  • Extracurricular Clubs: Cooking, Boardgames, Drama, Debate, and Creative Writing.
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What is an online school?

Like conventional schools, students attend their classes live, but with a crucial distinction: all lessons take place online. There’s no need for them to commute to a physical school building. Instead, they access their lessons by logging into the Thomas Keith Independent School’s web portal a few minutes before the scheduled start time of their classes.

Teaching occurs in real-time in a digital classroom that comes equipped with a whiteboard, live video and audio streams from the teacher, and a chat box. During the course of the lesson, pupils can freely interact with their teacher and peers via the chat box or their microphone, as needed. They can even be given access to write and draw on the whiteboard. They submit assignments and receive feedback on them through the student portal, with the entire process being online.

Through an amalgamation of voice, text, whiteboard annotations, notes, recordings, presentations, and screen sharing, classes are made more engaging and interactive than in traditional school settings. Students can be assigned to complete specific exercises, share their work, or present to the class. Every pupil also has the opportunity for direct and private communication with their teacher, ensuring that nobody feels overlooked or left behind.

 
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