Physics
Do you have a deep passion for articulating your love of abstract concepts that underpin the workings of the universe?
Leeds, Bradford, Hull and East Yorkshire Code
Course Information
All secondary trainees receive 2 hours of subject training per week, led by a highly experienced subject leader, who has a strong track-record of outstanding results in schools in the GORSE Academies Trust. This ensures that training is highly tailored to delivery to pupils in KS3, 4 and 5, and covers all areas of subject knowledge and disciplinary skills. We offer great insights into how outstanding schools operate and what we do as teachers to continue to inspire and encourage pupils in a love of physics. Our curriculum offer is highly extensive and unique in this regard. Trainees taking a combination of physics and mathematics will receive 2 hours of extra training in this area also.
Physics trainees, as well as receiving comprehensive training in the teaching of physics topics will also receive training in biology and chemistry. This ensures that in any placement school you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to cover any subject in the science curriculum. This is because all schools will require physics teachers to teach biology and chemistry in combined science curricula. This strengthens your employability.
Moving into Term 3, you will receive physics-specific training in Higher Tier teaching, measurement skills and key stage 5 teaching. This will allow you to continue to enhance your pedagogy and subject knowledge to fully adapt your teaching to higher tier pupils and classes. This will also prepare you for any key stage 5 teaching you may move into or be involved in during your training year.
You will have access to high-quality materials that will allow you to develop your own interests and create your own approach to teaching. By working alongside colleagues in our high-performing partnership schools, you will receive the very best opportunity to deepen your confidence and develop your own identity as an outstanding physics teacher.
Meet the Physics Subject Lead
Will Baxter
The world in the 21st Century is changing rapidly. There are seismic shocks being felt in the economy and through the advent of new technologies, many of which are being driven at an ever-increasing rate by enhanced computing power and artificial intelligence (AI). Already we are seeing novel developments in all fields, including health care, with the use of AI to enhance cancer detection, to astronomy with ever more sensitive “telescopes” such as LIGO revealing the intricate structure of the universe. Physics is a field of study that straddles many domains of our lives, from engineering, to astronomy, from healthcare to the economy. It’s fluidity and applicability to a diverse range of fields has made it attractive to young people to study and allowed them to explore the limits of their creativity, imagination and abilities in many different careers.
As physics teachers we have a deep passion for articulating our love of the abstract concepts that underpin the workings of the universe. It is this wellspring that GORSE SCITT training in physics will release over the course of the training year. A study of physics allows pupils to explore patterns and the fundamental rules that govern the workings of the universe. Pupils develop an understanding of complex phenomena and abstract concepts, alongside an ability to use mathematical methods fluently and with creativity. This can empower them to extend their study of physics at key stage 5, or to take these transferable skills into novel areas such as economics and medicine. Pupils with flexibility in thought
will be better able to navigate the rapidly evolving economy of the 21st Century.
The giants of physics in the 20th century included Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman. They came from a strong tradition of making complex ideas seem simple and straightforward. Our promise to you is to ensure that you can continue to work within these subject traditions in developing your own teaching craft. Our training programme ensures that you are kept abreast of the most up to date pedagogies in science and physics teaching through membership of the Institute of Physics. In this way we hope to tackle the perennially low numbers of pupils entering the discipline. Hopefully you will also be able to inspire the next generation of physics teachers.
