A Lower Sixth student at Tonbridge has become the school's latest recipient of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. James Watts was awarded the scholarship, which is given to 16-year-olds following a rigorous selection process. The scholarship aims to inspire and nurture school-age students to be the country’s future leaders in engineering and industry. Arkwright Scholarships also support...
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A pupil at Felsted Prep School has been shortlisted for the South East England Finals of the Young Engineers Competition. Amrit T, 11, was highly commended for her Leaders Award entry. A number of budding engineers from Felsted entered the competition, answering the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’. Amrit was inspired by her dislike of injections, leading her to create a...
Two Malvern St James Girls’ School pupils have won the prestigious Bristol ChemLabS Open Laboratories Competition. The competition, open to schools across the UK, involved small teams of Year 12 students interrogating the UK Air Data Archive produced by DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Their task was to investigate aspects of how air quality has been affected by the...
Felsted School hosted a Women in Science Day last week as part of a nationwide project to encourage girls to aspire to science-related studies and careers. Girls in Years 5 and 6 from five local primary schools, including Felsted Prep, were treated to a day of fun-filled activities, formulated to inspire their interests in science. The day was split into a carousel of three discipline-based...
Team Boulderdash interviewed by BBC Essex Radio presenters Ben and Sonia Felsted Prep School pupils are through to the National Final of the Land Rover 4x4 in schools technology challenge after impressing judges with their radio-controlled car. The team's challenge was to design and build a radio-controlled four-wheel drive vehicle that had to navigate and complete obstacles on an off-road test...
Sixth Form students from Tonbridge School were ranked as the ‘Best in the UK’ at a prestigious international Physics competition. The International Physics Brawl, a three-hour online contest which tests knowledge and problem-solving skills, took place on Wednesday 27th November. More than 400 teams from across the world competed online for the top honours, answering a series of questions which...
A Cherwell College Oxford student has taken a giant step towards her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Medal by participating in a NASA course in London. Victoria recently took part in Mission Discovery, a NASA-run Space and STEM summer programme, as part of her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. Students for the NASA programme are selected from all over the world, receiving guidance under NASA astronauts and...
Tonbridge School’s Barton Science Centre has been shortlisted for a national award celebrating architectural excellence. The Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards are one of the industry’s leading events, recognising creative, innovative and sustainable work in design, engineering and construction. Opening for teaching in January 2019, the Barton Science Centre has placed science and technology...
NASA astronauts Dr Michael Foale CBE and Dr Steve Swanson took centre stage during the official opening of Tonbridge School’s Barton Science Centre on Saturday 23rd March. The astronauts, who had been based at the school in the week leading up to the opening as part of the Mission Discovery educational programme, unveiled the commemorative plaque at the end of the ceremony. Dr Foale and Dr Swanson,...
Dr James Grime with Enigma Machine and Dr James Penny (Taunton School) A rare original WWII Enigma Machine was brought to Taunton School recently, when students had the opportunity to learn the science of code-breaking. Noted mathematician and public speaker Dr James Grime visited Taunton School to speak to students aged 10 to 18 in a series of lectures and workshops about the secretive world of...
King’s Ely welcomed British professor and television presenter, Professor Lord Robert Winston, into school to talk as part of its Science Week Lord Winston hosted the school’s Osmond Lecture, an annual event established and endowed by the Old Eleans’ Club to commemorate the career of Leonard Osmond, who was a Science teacher at King’s Ely from 1930 to 1972. Lord Winston, who is a British...
The Science department at Westbourne House Prep School created a week of 'Whizz Bang’ to celebrate the 2019 British Science Week. The school’s week was centred on practical applications of science in day-to-day life and set out to answer the question ‘Why is science useful?’. Alongside class-based activities, the science team creating a plethora of experiments conducted at break and lunch times...
Mission Discovery, the week-long programme of exciting space-themed activities, is under way at Tonbridge School. Renowned NASA astronauts Dr Michael Foale CBE and Dr Steve Swanson are leading various events. Dr Foale, the first British-born NASA astronaut, is an astrophysicist and a former International Space Station (ISS) commander who has been into space on six missions. Dr Swanson, also a former...
Two Felsted Prep School teams have won national recognition at the Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair in Birmingham. Year 7 girls Freya Perry, Grace Boroughs, Ava Readman and Anna White won the National Talent 2030 Engineering prize for their project the ‘Sanitary Shark’, an invention to remove waste product from the sea; helping to clean up the oceans of pollutants whilst preserving marine...
St Mary’s Calne has announced that Alexandra Haydon, Senior Teacher and Head of Science, has been shortlisted for the i25. The event recognises the independent sector’s leading influencers and innovators. Alexandra was nominated for her approach to science education, teacher development, enterprise and her work with other schools locally. The event will be held in London on 21st March, where...
Laurence Pleuger Seventeen students from Bedford School have taken part in pioneering medical research that could help change the lives of children around the world. The pupils have been working with scientists from the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge to help identify all of the genes in the Human Whipworm genome – a process known as annotation. Human Whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) is one of...
Felsted School has been awarded the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Silver Science Mark. The award recognises the best practice in science departments across the UK, with only 15% of secondary schools expected to meet these standards. Felsted’s science department was recognised for its teaching, strong vision and student progress in examinations, with many of them going on to...
Isabelle (third from the right) and Ruby (centre) are national runners-up Two Year 8 pupils from Felsted Prep have earned second place at the UK National Science and Engineering Competition. Isabelle Soper and Ruby Rose competed at The Big Bang Fair UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham. The event encourages pupils to submit a research-based project, with the best...