At the Eastern Fleurieu School R-6 Campuses, science teaching and learning has a major environmental focus. Seen as an integral part of everyday life, our science curriculum provides experiences that develop an understanding of basic scientific concepts. Students in all year levels are given the opportunity to investigate, design and experiment, to observe and pose questions.

Student interest is fostered by participation in a number of challenging activities including the Oliphant Science Awardsand participation in the National Science Competition . Many students integrate their science learning with campus based activities which include recycling programmes, energy management programs and involvement in KESAB.

Staff have been trained and use the Primary Connections Programme making impornant links science with literacy.

Science in the Middle Years (7-9) is a learning endeavour that allows students to work through the 4 conceptual strands of the SACSA framework, learning to investigate, to use and critique science and to act responsibly in science. The social implications of science and technology are explored with students being able to develop an understanding of its effect on people, other species and the environment.

Students are actively involved and participate cooperatively with their peers to formulate questions and conduct scientific investigations. Students use the Laboratory as a means of better understanding the processes of exploring, generating, testing and relating ideas. They perform experiments and further develop their skills of collaboration and observation.Teachers of science encourage students to think more deeply about science and explicitly teach about different ways of thinking and preferred thinking styles.

Course Outline
Year 7/8 (even years)
Year 9 You can be a Scientist, Experiments and Measurement, Reactions around us, Separating and Identifying Substances, Classifying living things, Acids and Bases around us, Electricity and Magnetism, Reflecting on Light, Sound, Getting and Storing Energy, Rocketing through the Solar System, How do Living Things reproduce, The Earth’s Changing Surface, Simple and Complex Machines, In Sickness and in Health

Science in the Senior Years aims to develop in all students the capacity to use, develop and apply scientific knowledge; support and foster the understanding that science is a social construction and develop positive attitudes, values and dispositions related to science. Students will demonstrate and further develop their skills, knowledge and understandings in literacy, numeracy and in information and communication technology.

Many activities will be designed to support the content as defined by the curriculum along with developing and fostering Key Competencies, Essential Learnings and different Thinking and Learning styles.

Year 10 Science is a core subject for all Year 10 students. It is a General Science course that covers topics which link with the 4 main areas of science; Chemistry (Atoms, Molecules and Ions ; Reactions and Energy), Physics (Current, Resistance and Electro-magnetism ; Force and Movement), Biology (Cell Chemistry ; Ecosystems) and Earth Science (The Crust beneath our feet ; Satellites and Space).

SACE Stage 2 : Choices include PES Biology, PES Chemistry, PES Physics and SAS Science