Applications for places in Year 10 for Sept. 2025
1. Our Independent Representative has applied the oversubscription set out in our Admission policy to applications received on or before 31st January.
2. Year 10 places have been allocated.
3. RDUTC has written and emailed all parents of students who have been allocated places with instructions about how to accept/decline the place.
4. The deadline for accepting places is 31st March 2025. Anyone not accepting their place by this date will be assumed to have declined the place.
5. If anyone declines their place, the Independent Representative will apply the oversubscription criteria to fill the vacancy/ies.
6. On 2nd April we will email parents of applicants who have NOT been allocated a place, informing them of the outcome of the oversubscription process, asking if they want their child to go on the waiting list and providing information about the appeals process.
7. For more information, please email the Principal, Sarah Pashley, at [email protected]
A Level Biology
Course Information
The study of life itself, A level Biology explores the theories and principles involved in living systems, in all their intricate beauty. Topics you will learn about include: lifestyle, transport, genes and health, development, plants and the environment, the natural environment and species survival, energy, exercise and co-ordination, as well as practical biology and research skills. By the end of the course you will know about the principles of genetics, molecules, taxonomy, natural selection, evolutionary theory, global warming, bacteria and viruses, and more.
You will gain an understanding of how society makes decisions about scientific issues, as well some of the ways in which the scientific community contributes to the success of the economy and society.
If you are interested in recent developments in genetic engineering or disease prevention, understanding how we evolved, finding out how cells – “little bags of water with things dissolved in them” – carry out so many different processes in a seemingly effortless fashion, tracking down natural resources, the true impacts of pollution on the natural world, or animal care and conservation programmes, to name a few, then this is your subject.
UNITS
- Biological molecules
- Cells
- Organisms exchange substances with their environment
- Genetic information, variation and relationships between organisms
- Energy transfers in and between organisms
- Organisms respond to changes in their internal and external environments
- Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems
- The control of gene expression
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