Science challange week

Every year St Bede’s Prep School holds it’s annual Science Week which is filled with explosions, excitement and lots of educational fun and experiments.

Year 5 started the week off with their visit to the Science Museum in Herstmonceux, which was followed by the Primary Schools’ Challenge in which a number of local primary schools are invited to St Bede’s to take part in a number of scientific challenges.

Year 8 were fortunate to have a lecture from Prof Sue Hartley; Prof Hartley gave this year’s Royal Society Christmas Lectures on the interaction between plants and animals. Dr Hartley is one of the leading female scientists in her field and is only the fourth woman in the history of the Society to give a Christmas lecture.

On the Thursday, pupils in Years 3 - 8 were invited to dress up as a famous scientist; however as an added twist they must then meet Mr Childers, the Head of Science in the Dining Room at Buns Break and re-enact the invention or event which made the scientist famous!

Friday saw Year 6 having a lecture on ‘Amazing Forces’ and they also built a container out
of four A4 sheets of paper, one metre of string and some sellotape to carry a soft egg safely down from a four storey building. Year 7 were also given a construction challenge to build a tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti to support a cream egg to the greatest altitude. Year 8 scholars built spectroscopes to study and analyse the amounts and types of spectral light that comes from different light sources!