Future plans for the Science Department

The Science department at Woodstock can look forward to an exciting and eventful future. We will be aiming to get our courses available on our electronic teaching resource Moodle, and in this way we will set a framework into which new staff member can slot smoothly into the team and bring their own qualities and expertise to bear immediately. We can also take the opportunity offered by the two school system to make a seamless 7-12 curriculum that delivers the best quality Science to our students in a far more streamlined fashion.

By making the AP courses more compact to fit into one year delivery and spreading the IGCSE courses over three years, we aim to remove the Year-10 bottleneck and still allow the three AP Sciences needed for aspiring doctors and engineers. At the same time, we may be able to include planned new elective courses such as Anatomy, Physiology, and Physics with Calculus into our portfolio.

The department has been lucky enough to have received a generous grant from the school's alumni. Organised by T. Z. Chu '52, the grant will allow us to buy new resources of equipment and expertise.

At the end of this year, we will lose Mrs. Endo and Mrs. Boven (currently teaching Middle School Science), which will be a great loss to the team. We are hoping to recruit three new people to replace them and, with the addition of a trainee technician, we will complete a team to lead us into the future.