STEM

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...

Three students from St Swithun’s have been celebrating their recent successes in national mathematics competitions. The girls completed Olympiad-style examination papers set for the best young mathematicians in the country. 16 year old Michelle Ng sat the Mathematical Olympiad for girls. Despite competing against mathematicians up to three years older than her, Michelle was placed in the top 100 in...

Earlier this year, a team of four Year 8 students from The Royal Masonic School for Girls triumphed over teams from schools around the country and were crowned winners of the National Cyber Security Centre / GCHQ CyberFirst competition. As part of their prize for winning, the girls, along with the other finalists of the competition, were invited to afternoon tea at Windsor Castle, in the company of HRH...

Charterhouse recently opened its award-winning Science and Mathematics Centre. Benefitting from over 400 years’ of teaching experience, the School’s aim was to revolutionise the way Science and Mathematics subjects are taught to its boys and girls, by creating an environment that nurtures inter-departmental collaboration. The new centre provides seven new chemistry laboratories with wet and dry...

Dean Close Prep School hosted its annual science exhibition over the Easter break. At the end of last term, pupils were invited to investigate a topic, develop an experiment or challenge a hypothesis about an area of science that inspires them. Working individually or in pairs, projects were submitted to this voluntary challenge, creating a colourful exhibition of fascinating concepts, which fellow...

Sherborne International students have excelled once again in the Mathematical Olympiad; national challenges which aim to stimulate mathematical problem solving for students in Year 11 or below. In the Intermediate Kangeroo, Tony and Leonardo both achieved a Merit. This puts them within the top 25% of Maths students invited to compete in the UK. In the top level paper, the MacLaurin Olympiad, two of...

A team of 5 pupils from Bishop’s Stortford College Prep School were recently awarded first prize at the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit. Since the Autumn Term, the group of Upper Third (Year 8) pupils have been developing an app designed to solve a real-life problem in their school or local community. The project, part of the Get | IT competition in which 130 schools have taken part, was launched by...

Year 12 pupil and Oswestry School academic scholar, Ivan Majić, has finished third in the Liverpool Mathematical Society Open Challenge . The competition, which is sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Liverpool, took place over February half term with schools from across the UK taking part. Entries were invited from pupils in Year 13 or below and the topic for this...

King’s Ely Senior students recently won the Best Engineering Design award at RoboCon. Two teams of Year 9 pupils entered the competition, which took place in Cambridge during the Easter holidays. Robocon aims to encourage pupils to build a basic robot to run in the competition, and allows them to modify it in any way they like. Throughout the Lent term, the team worked hard to each build a robot...

Five pupils, including three from Tonbridge School, will have their experiment carried out on the International Space Station. Mission Discovery, a programme run by ISSET, the International Space School Educational Trust, gives senior school students the opportunity to spend time working with NASA astronauts and renowned scientists, creating ideas for experiments that could be carried out in...

King's Ely Junior pupils recently attended the inspiring DigiGirlz Day at Microsoft Research Cambridge, picking up a prize for one of their designs. DigiGirlz Days are being held at Microsoft hubs across the globe and are designed to provide school-age girls with a better understanding of what a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is like. The event in Cambridge saw Dan...

The ‘Skirting Science’ event at Taunton School, aimed at encouraging girls to get interested in STEM, was a resounding success with over 230 Year 9 girls from local Somerset schools in attendance. The 13- and 14-year-old girls had the opportunity to take part in some fascinating workshops, including "Space Detectives" by Institute of Physics, Forensics with UWE Bristol and "Can you Build a Leg"...

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...

One of the first female RAF fighter pilots in the UK, Flight Lt Mandy Hickson, recently visited Taunton School to give an uplifting lecture about her career. Students and staff at the school were treated to an inspiring and humorous talk by RAF fighter pilot, Flight Lt Mandy Hickson. Mandy thrilled students with the amazing journey that led her through failing her RAF entry examinations (twice),...

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...