To celebrate Science Week 2023, Junior and Senior pupils had the opportunity to participate in various workshops dedicated to science, technology, engineering and maths.
Sixth Form students launched the week with an impressive assembly on sickle-cell anaemia.
Year 2 pupils enjoyed planting bulbs for Mother’s Day gifts and also experimented with film cannisters exploding up into the air.
Year 3 pupils visited the Physics department to enjoy an engaging afternoon exploring electricity and demonstrations using a van der Graaf generator. Year 3 pupils also investigated rocks and fossils during a Geology Lab workshop. Activities included classifying rocks, using microscopes to observe crystal formations to identify igneous rocks and acting as geological engineers trying to control flooding of their villages.
Year 5 and Year 7 pupils enjoyed a morning of design, engineering and science to make a wind powered buggy in three and a half hours! Having been given information on renewable energies and some guidance from their teachers on how best to design a buggy, the pupils set about their tasks with hot glue guns, balsa wood, corrugated plastic, straws, wooden wheel and one balloon each. They presented some excellent and ingenious designs and learnt to problem solve when buggies did not travel as quickly or as fast as first anticipated.
The Senior School hosted Year 6 pupils for an afternoon of chemistry, where pupils were asked to make their own solutions from beetroot and red cabbage to indicate the acid and alkaline nature of some everyday substances they might find around the home.
Year 8 pupils were given the task of designing, making and posting a parcel to ensure a single Pringle can be returned to school unbroken; and we look forward to seeing the results next week!
Thank you to our fantastic Junior and Senior science departments for organising such a wide range of exciting workshops that foster a love of science.
