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The purpose-built Department has three very well equipped laboratories, a lecture theatre, a small seminar room, an extensive Departmental library, and a conservatory.

Biology is taught to all students in their first two years, and for GCSE the Edexcel specification is followed, although those taking exams from 2008+ will take Edexcel's IGCSE either in Biology or Double Science. In the Upper Sixth Form, students read for the AQA Modular specification. Both at GCSE and A level there is internal assessment of practical work which counts towards the examinations. At GCSE there are up to seven sets, and at A level there are two or three sets in each of the Sixth Form years.

There is a particularly well stocked departmental library, containing a mixture of well-tried and newly-released books and journals, which is open to all the boys throughout the day. This is particularly useful for those boys who continue the subject to A level, and also offers a quiet place to work within the department itself.

During the Easter holidays of the Lower Sixth year all A level students attend a Field Course at Trebetherick, North Cornwall, where they study the ecology of a rocky shore.

Health and sex education is integrated into Biology and PE lessons, and into the Seminar programmes undertaken by all pupils at various levels.

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