Science

Science SMSC

Trips and enrichment that enhance SMSC

STEM 

The science department offer numerous trips related to STEM. Below are the occasions when trips have been organised since OCT Half term:

20 Y10/11 students Science Live event – Manchester. Science aspirations event with Sir Robert Winston.

80 students Years 5 -12Coder Dojo – programming and robotics. 2 events with roughly 40 each time.

30 Y10/11 students medical dental vet STEM route – Hands on event with local physios PCT.

10 students (Y8-10) – Programming and enterprise group – Raspberry Pi and STEM ambassadors, LEGO Robotics.

8 students Y10 Barclays E- banking competition winners ( 10 week event)

Discovery Scholarship –

6 Y9’s IAG ‘ask a scientist’ at United utilities

6 Y10’s Solvay chemicals – IAG Careers in Chemistry

10 Y7 –Weekly Science Club –  Project to Mars – sent an experiment to the edge of Space with a national competition.

10 Y8 pupils – Girls into Engineering – Royal Soc aspirations event

Students also develop speaking skills, Presentation skills & Creative learning tasks such as designing science based board games