Chemistry
Staff
Miss C Edwards
Mrs H Owen
Mrs B Pinkham
Department Information
Chemistry affects our lives from the moment we wake up until we finally, hopefully, get a well deserved sleep! It is involved in making the plastics & in extracting the metals that make alarm clocks to wake us and radios to listen to at breakfast; in producing crops that become the cereals we eat, the bread we toast and the coffee we drink during breakfast; in the location, extraction & refining of fuels to power the cars that bring us to school as well as in the search for cleaner & cheaper ways of doing so; in the making of the paper we write on, the inks we write with and the mobiles we use to ask Parents to be pick us up; as well as in the manufacture of medicines to combat disease so we don’t miss have to miss school when we are ill!
But is everything sweetness & light in the chemical world? Do all the undoubted benefits of Chemistry outweigh the possible drawbacks? Are we destroying the world we live in just so we can live more comfortably? Or are we able to balance progress with preservation?
GCSE Chemistry involves studying the processes mentioned, the affect they have on the planet and looks at the important questions now facing our future generations.