Year 9 Science

Our Year 9 students have be re-visiting the concepts of energy, energy transfers and energy transformations into various forms, with a particular focus on electrical circuits. Students investigated the effects of static electricity with an array of different activities including the use of a Van de Graaff Generator which demonstrated the powerful effects of making an object more negatively charged than its environment. Students have also been investigating series and parallel circuits and constructing various machinery including magnetic cranes, battery operated cars and solar cars to examine the effects of a variety of modifications on their efficiency, speed and strength. Students are now diligently collecting and analysing their results to compile their final investigative task for what has been, a busy and productive year.

Year 10 Science

This term, our Year 10 science students delved deep into understanding the interactions of Earth's spheres and their importance in sustaining life and matter cycles, and their important links to the Carbon Cycle and climate change. They are now expanding their learning journey into the vast realms of the universe, exploring different scientific theories about its origins and evidence for these theories, whilst realising just how vast our universe actually is. Please note an upcoming important date for our Year 10 students with their hard work being assessed in an exam on the 20th of November during their exam block. Let's wish them the best as they traverse from our world to the cosmos!