Category: STEM

11 January 19

On Tuesday 11 December 2018, 70 Sixth Form Biologists from the Boys’ and Girls’ Schools and 17 members of the Biology staff were delighted to welcome Dr Jack Kreindler (founder of the Harley Street Centre for Health and Human Performance and medical technology entrepreneur) to speak at our Inaugural Joint Biology Dinner on the subject of…

9 November 18

The STEM building is really starting to take shape with numerous contractors working away on site.  They’ve been busy completing the ‘shell’ of the building with the brickwork now finished, the roof finishes being progressed, the windows being installed and the scaffold being removed. Final works to ‘weather seal’ the building are now taking place…

9 November 18

Last year students in Lower 4 and Upper 4 built and programmed VEX robots in an after school Robot Club. They worked in teams to produce clawbots, a robot called Ike and even a V-rex robot.  They used their knowledge to help them research applications of robotics and prepared presentations. They were a delight to…

28 August 18

In the second half of the Summer term U4 students visited Whipsnade Zoo to study the design of enclosures for a variety of different animals.  They then used their science lessons to plan designs for new enclosures for the animals.  These enclosures had to take into account the well-being of the animals, the viewing experience…

3 July 18

On Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 June the Senior School was visited by the Creative Space mobile planetarium.  Lower four students spent Tuesday immersed in the wonders of the night sky as they were taken on a virtual tour of the solar system.  Guided by Space Science Communicator, Melanie Davies, the students took a trip to the…

27 June 18

On Wednesday 13 June we hosted an Institute of Engineering and Technology Faraday Challenge Day.  Four visiting schools and two teams of Habs Girls students became real-life engineers for a day and researched, designed and built solutions to real engineering problems. The event aims to encourage more young people to study and consider exciting and rewarding…

26 February 18

The Lower 6 recently attended Mathsfest 2018 in London, Tapaswini tells us more here. I must admit before actually attending Mathsfest I was very doubtful that I would actually enjoy it. Fortunately that was not the case. It was a well planned out and engaging event and I managed to understand far more than I…

24 January 18

Over the Autumn term eight girls from L5 have been working with mentors from MBDA to build and code a robot from scratch to take part in the MBDA Robot Rumble Finals at the University of Hertfordshire on Saturday 20 January. Split over two pitches, teams of robots had to pick up and move a…

23 January 18

On Friday 19 January a group of twelve L6 Physics A-level students visited the Institute of Physics for a workshop. Two of our L6, Sasha and Suganya, have written about the event. The workshop consisted of 2 parts; the first being a discussion about A-level physics and the opportunities that the IOP could offer us. It was really useful…