Category: STEM

27 November 20

Congratulations to Lydia in Lower 6 for yet another award!  This time for the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. The highly respected Arkwright Engineering Scholarship, designed to inspire and equip the next generation of UK engineering talent, is celebrating a record number of female scholars embarking upon its 2020 programme. This year, the programme awarded 300 esteemed…

19 October 20

When we spoke to her Lydia in Lower 6 eloquently described her delight at receiving her prize for her entry into the TDI (Technology, Design and Innovation) challenge.  “I have been playing music on the Bluetooth speaker at home” she beams, “but it can’t be too loud – my dad is proud of me, but…

14 October 20

On Ada Lovelace Day students were fortunate to hear from Helena Webb who spoke about the rising use of automated decision-making. This relates to the reliance on computer-based systems to make decisions that have traditionally been made by humans. For instance, decisions about which job applications are selected for interview, whether or not a loan application…

9 October 20

Another fantastic publication from our student body, this time focussing on Science and Engineering and including an article about the United Space School at Nasa.  We hope you enjoy reading it as much as the editorial team enjoyed making it!

8 October 20

We recently celebrated the opening of our new state-of-the-art STEM building with a special virtual event attended by members of our school community.  The headline speaker was the inspirational Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE (presenter of BBC4’s The Sky at Night) who is passionate about diversity in science and delivered an extremely engaging lecture entitled: ‘Reaching…

8 July 20

To celebrate the opening of our new STEM facilities we are delighted that Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock will deliver the inaugural Dr Luena Hatcher Lecture at on Thursday 24 September entitled Reaching for the Stars – When will we make it out there? Further information about the live-streaming of this event will be shared in September….

10 June 20

This half term students across the Middle School (Year 7, 8 and 9) are taking part in the Bright Ideas STEM challenge. This cross-curricular project is the result of a collaboration between the Geography, Physics, D&T and Art Departments and encourages students to find energy solutions for cities in 2050. The design brief on the…

20 May 20

We are pleased to share this short film showing our completed Science labs, built to complement the new STEM Centre, which was completed in September 2019. The new labs are part of a state-of-the-art facility, which will enable our staff and students to teach and learn in the best possible environment. Science has always been…

11 May 20

Congratulations to Lydia in Upper 5, who has won first prize in a competition run by VEX Robotics UK. In this article, Lydia writes about her interest in coding and her entry for the competition: Coding is hard; or so I thought as I sat at my desk, reading Miss Percy’s email about another competition…

13 March 20

The Upper 4 team travelled to Telford for the VEX IQ National Finals on Sunday 1 March and quickly got to work familiarising themselves with the venue, strategizing with other partner teams and writing code for their robot.  They worked hard throughout the day and by Monday they had qualified for the final rounds.  This…