Is 7 science lessons a week in a secondary school fair?

[Mollie4657]

Is 7 lessons of science a week fair

Is this general science? Chosen subjects? What is the time of each class?

Is that 7 hours of lessons? Sounds like a lot but presumably they have a reason. I would think 3 or 4 hours is more normal. Also depends on the year group I guess.

What year group?

Not sure what you mean by "fair".
Are some of those double lessons? Are the sciences taught separately so some days there is a physics lesson AND a chemistry lesson.
Personally I hated science at school and found it a complete bore so I feel it was "unfair" to have to do it at all. But you can say that about any and all school subjects if you simply don't like them.

Do they have a 2 week schedule, so 7 hours one week and then less in week 2?

Either way, I don’t think fairness plays any part in it.

Its essentially 3 subjects - physics, chemistry & biology - so it sounds reasonable to me. Science is a "core" subject. The other two core subjects are English and Maths. Its common to have more of core subjects than non-core subjects.

My daughter’s school manages 5x 1 hour periods a day and there’s no chance they could fit in over a day of science a week!

She is doing triple science gcse and her school operates a two-week timetable so it varies how much science she gets each week, it’s not 14 hours in total though per fortnight! That would be too much.

Year ggroup? Length of lesson?.

My Yr8 has 3 hours and my Yr10 has 6 hours.

Fair?
very odd choice of word

Agreed, we need to know which year and how many hours per week on average. We have 3- 4 hours pw except for triple science GCSE.

Fair to who?
Other subjects?
People who love science?
People who hate science?

Science is 3 subjects - 7hrs a week is 2 1/3 each science per week. Doesn’t feel too bad. No one would say that that much English was unfair.

DDs school had 14 lessons of science over 2 weeks for those doing triple science GCSE. Those doing combined had 10 hours.

'Fair' is a strange question.

Yes. One GCSE Option = 2.5 hours per week => triple science = 7.5 hours a week is technically fair, though a lot of science.

At what age/year group? And how long is a lesson?
As others have said, that's three subjects - dragging my memory back to the dark ages when I was at secondary school, I think we had two double lessons of biology, chemistry and physics every week in what is now Year 7, a double lesson was one hour ten minutes, so that would be what, seven hours of lessons? So your seven lessons a week sounds about right. I might be wrong that that was in Year 7 though, it might have been later

How many hours? What year group? Do you mean "usual" rather than "fair"?

If it's 7 hours of science in KS3 that sounds high. If it's 7 40 minute lessons in KS4 for a student studying triple science GCSE that a bit low.

My dd is year 11, she has studied triple science and has about 15 hours of science a fortnight, so slightly more than you have stated.

Seems normal 2 of each science (chemistry, Bilogy, physics) each week - its a core subject.

Yes, I’d like a school that prioritises science like this. But I don’t see why it is unfair per se.

Does your child strongly dislike science?

It just sound like the school focuses on this area and so it’s reasonable to have lots of lessons on it. As long as maths, English and other subjects are covered adequately.

No it’s not fair and you didn’t ask to be born.

Do you get the feeling that the OP is a child?

No - it's not enough.

If each lesson is an hour that's only 2.20 mins per subject (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) - less if the lessons are 45 mins long.

My son is year 7 and has 5 hrs per week - we picked his school (grammar) because it’s strong on science and so is he.

he’ll be delighted when he can drop some other subjects and do more hours of science!

which year?

My Dd would say unfair as definitely need more.

My son has 8 science lessons a week as he has closed separate science lessons as his GCSE options. Had he picked double science and another GCSE he would have less science lessons. We are going to need more info to answer your question.