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Welcome to Spotlight Science!

This is the homepage for Spotlight Science, the most popular Science course in the UK for Key Stage 3 students.

Interactive Series Guide Click here to view
this brand new
Interactive Series Guide
for the Spiral Edition.

The Spotlight Science website is designed to assist you at every stage on your path to the successful and rewarding study, or teaching of Key Stage 3 Science.

Now with the announcement of its new QCA Framework Edition, Spotlight Science has become more flexible than ever!

Spotlight Science has always had a superb record for delivering outstanding SATs results. It is now the only Key Stage 3 Science course to offer a choice of resources to suit your preferred teaching methods and your students’ preferred learning style.

Books 7, 8 and 9 now published
 QCA Framework Edition – these brand new books offer full  coverage of  the National Framework Objectives and QCA Scheme of Work  requirements, and topics are delivered in the more linear sequence of the  National Framework and QCA Scheme of Work guidelines.

The Spiral Edition – offers full coverage of the National Framework Objectives and QCA Scheme of Work requirements, and topics are revisited in a spiral fashion through Years 8 and 9.

Each Edition is entirely supported by its own full featured set of Teacher Support Packs and Assessment Resource Banks.

Coming soon... Spotlight Test and Assessment online

A flexible online resource allowing you to test, assess and track pupils performance.
Questions can be selected and completed online with instant marking and feedback saving you valuable time.
Further details and a sample will be available soon so keep checking this page!


Assessment
To facilitate levelling, and to help calculate more accurate ongoing student performance levels, a Level Reckoner tool is provided FREE (these may take a few moments to download).
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9

Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Scotland
Samples

Latest - Framework Book 7, 8 and 9 now published.

Framework for Science Document - Updated 24/10/02

Attainment Targets mapped for Spotlight Science for Scotland 5-14 Edition can be found here.

The QCA Framework Edition exactly matches the QCA Scheme of Work and the Spiral Edition closely correlates to the QCA Scheme of Work.
Download the mapping documents for the Spiral Edition here.

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