Over 100 teachers at Royal Hospital School have begun teaching lessons to 750 pupils remotely. A total of 28 subjects will be taught to pupils in 138 countries via the school's remote learning capability. Royal Hospital School, recognised as one of the top EdTech 50 schools across the UK, is an Apple Training Centre and pupils have been using their own iPads provided by the school to access resources...
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King’s Ely celebrated British Science Week with a variety of experiments, lectures and VIP guests. Students and staff from King’s Ely Acremont Nursery right the way through to King’s Ely Sixth Form enjoyed a feast of events and activities to commemorate all things Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The Science Week programme kicked off with the Osmond Lecture – an annual event...
More than 150 pupils from schools in Germany, Kent, London and the USA attended the Science and Technology Conference at Tonbridge School last week. Now in its fifth year, the conference brought together students to present their own work and discuss scientific topics. The event also tied in with the first day of British Science Week 2020. A busy programme included several student presentation...
A pupil from Westbourne School has achieved a gold award at the 2020 British Biology Olympiad. Only 6.2% of participants are able to achieve the award and Anthony, an IB student at the Penarth-based school, was above the boundary of 6.2% to earn it. Out of the 9,520 students from around the world, he was one of the top 16 students. The British Biology Olympiad challenges students with an interest in...
Students at Sherborne International are celebrating top results in the national Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. The competition aims to stimulate mathematical problem solving and is for students in Year 11 or below. To recognise the highest performers in the Challenge, the top-scoring 40% of participants are awarded bronze, silver and gold certificates. This year, 73% of students at Sherborne...
Six students from Kingswood School recently participated the Jaguar Land Rover 4x4 in Schools regional finals at Bristol Science Park. The global competition offers apprenticeships at Jaguar Land Rover to those who reach the final stages. Teams are challenged to create a new shell for a Land Rover remote control car, drive and navigate an assault course, have an interview with a panel of judges from...
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...
A team of girls from King's Ely Junior have won an award at Microsoft Research Cambridge’s DigiGirlz event. Twelve girls attended the action-packed event with Daniel Everest, Head of Computing and Digital Innovation at King's Ely Junior. The event saw students work in small teams to produce a concept that could help with environmental issues – a challenge which saw one of King’s Ely Junior’s...
A team of budding motorsport engineers from The Leys have won two trophies at the regional finals of the F1 in Schools Team Mach 4 competition. Alex H was the team manager and CAD Design Engineer, with Miles K as the design engineer. Toby G was CAM manufacture engineer and Bobby R played a key role as the marketing and sponsorship manager. Their challenge was to design a prototype car to race down...
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...
Twenty-four Year 8 students recently attended the Faraday Challenge STEM Day at Kingswood School. The competition, organised by the Institute of Engineering and Technology, aims to promote and encourage budding young engineers by challenging them with real life scenarios. Pupils were tasked with designing and modelling something that could help aid workers in the context of a natural...
A science experiment designed by students from Tonbridge School and Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School will shortly be sent into space. The students came up with their winning design as part of the ‘Mission Discovery’ competition, run by the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET), which took place at Tonbridge last year. The winning team carried out an investigation into whether...
Students at Tonbridge School put in impressive performances in the first round of the British Maths Olympiad. Ben Gardner, Hayden Lam, Victor Lin, Isaac King, Kevin Lee, Godwyn Lai and Sherman Yip achieved distinctions and were ranked in the top 25% of all competitors. Four of the boys also received medals for achieving a place in the national top 100. Sherman received a gold medal for being just...
St Swithun’s School has been shortlisted for a prestigious TES Independent School Award in the Independent-State School Partnership category. The school has been recognised for developing a significant and sustainable primary schools enrichment programme and for delivering a range of activities that positively impacts the lives of over 500 local primary school pupils every year from its partner...
A designer at The Leys School, Cambridge had the honour of attending the presentation of the £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2019 at Buckingham Palace. Jack Jiang, who is in the school's Sixth Form, designed the trophy for the event. The prize, regarded as the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, was awarded to Dr Bradford Parkinson, Professor James Spilker, Hugo Freuhauf...
Queen Anne’s School has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Showcase School Award acknowledging the extensive digital teaching and learning that has become integral to the school’s approach. The school is one of just 24 schools in the UK and 460 worldwide to be recognised by the international tech giants as leaders in digital learning. Thomas Lange, Head of E-Learning, commented: “The...
King’s Ely student Eleanor MacGillivray has been able to further explore her love of Maths at the University of Oxford. Eleanor, aged 15, was one of only two Year 10 girls from the whole of the UK to be invited to attend the prestigious Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp. The programme was organised by the UK Mathematics Trust and took place at The Queen's College, Oxford during the summer...
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...