British Science Week (10th to 19th March) is certainly going off with a bang at independent schools across the UK! Here are some of our favourite stories so far…
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Burgess Hill Girls Junior School, West Sussex
Women are typically under-represented in science and technology careers, but gender is no bar to a STEM career at Burgess Hill Girls Junior School. To celebrate British Science Week, school teamed up with global engineering company, Ricardo, to deliver a fascinating workshop in which pupils assembled electromagnetic motors.
The school’s ongoing relationship with Ricardo was established a year ago, and the workshop was run by six Ricardo graduate engineers, who taught the children how to use electromagnets as a source of renewable energy. Above, Chloe (left), aged 10, and Eve, aged nine, work together to assemble an electromagnet motor
For the remainder of British Science Week, the Year Two students ran a special assembly called “You Can Try This At Home!”. The children demonstrated experiments to other year groups and parents, including ten-minute ice cream, Skittle rainbows (dissolving Skittle sweets to make a rainbow), and Mento and Coca Cola explosions!
Junior School teacher and STEM Lead, Shelley Allen said: “One of the great things about an all-girls school is that our pupils are free from the negative cultural influences that to...