Yass / IGGY / Uniq…..

  Thanks to our local OU rep. Dawn for her support with our OU courses and good luck if you are beginning yours (after the exams remember!).

Huge Congratulations

 Yipeee!! Huge congratulations all year 10 pupils on thier fanatsic Module results – and particularly to helen Wickins and Tom Adams who have scored 100% in all 6 unit tests! What an achievement. HUGE HUGE congratulations too to David Edey who has been sleected to represent the UK in the British Chemistry Olympiad Team – a year early! Wow – David we are So proud of you – and finally to Ella Martenson who has successfully secured a place on the prestigeous UNIQ summer school at Oxford University this year – A brilliant achievement – well done all.

June’s Molecule of the Month

   Nylon- the link between stockings, toothbrushes and parachutes – named after New York and London   Find out more about it here.

This was the week …. when?

   This was the week when ….

 

Edward Jenner innoculated the 8 year old son of his gardener, James Phillips, with the cowpox virus to see if it would protect against subsequent exposure to smallpox  - to find out more about Jenner follow this link

What’s on TV this week?

  Science on TV – well – Brainiac is back – yipeee – what else is on?

Extreme Ice

Nat Geo Wild HD 544, Sunday 20th June 13:00 to 14:00
Documentary following acclaimed ice photographer James Balog as he joins scientists on a risky mission to capture glaciers and ice sheets breaking apart due to climate change.

 

STEM

Information TV 166, Monday 21st June 13:30 to 14:00
Take a closer look to see how Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) enrichment programmes are making an impact in schools in Northern Ireland.

 

Museum of Life

BBC 1 London 101, Tuesday 22nd June 2:15 to 3:15
Digging Up the Past. Episode 2.
Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old. (Repeat)

 

Seconds From Disaster

National Geographic 526, Wednesday 23rd June 19:00 to 20:00
Asian Tsunami.
The 2004 tsunami was the most devastating natural disaster of our time. What contributed to the magnitude of the killer wave, and how can a similar tragedy be prevented?