GCSE study in physics provides the foundation for understanding the material world. Scientific understanding is changing our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity. All students will learn essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes, and uses of science. They will gain appreciation of how the complex and diverse phenomena of the natural world can be described in terms of a small number of key ideas that relate to physics and that are both inter-linked and of universal application. The GCSE in Physics requires students to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding of working scientifically.