Nearly there Year 10!

Just a few more days of revision for Year 10 who will all have an exam on Wednesday morning (Chemistry U1 or Science U2). Separate scientists will have their last exam on Friday morning(Physics U1).

Revision breakfasts will be running on both days in S7 from 8:00am and you are all encouraged to attend.

2012 The year of the Higgs?

2012 is all set to be a ground breaking year for physics. The Large Hadron collider has been getting closer and closer to finding a very important particle which is incredibly small and could be part of absolutley everything in the Universe. For 50 years physicists' best theory has been that the Higgs particle is in everything and is what gives every other particle mass. Without it gravity would not work and without gravity the Universe be a very different place!It is also possible that we will discover that the Higgs particle doesn't exist which this would be even more amazing. Imagine the Higgs particle was a car engine and we were about to break open the bonet of the car so that we could see it. If we discovered that the car was running without an engine then our entire understanding of how a car works would have to be re-thought. If we can have gravity without the Higgs particle then our entire understanding of the laws of physics will have to be re-thought! Find out more by clicking here and to watch a BBC Horizon special which will tell you all about the Higgs particle and the experiments being done at the Large Hadron Collider to try and find it. (Available for the next 11 days).

Year 10 Extended Learning Day

Congratulations on a really successful day of preparation for your module exams. Remember you will have your first mock exam tomorrow (B1,C1,P1 for core Science students, B1,B2,B3 for triple Science students) and your other mock exams next week.

Your first exam is on Thursday morning and you are invited to a revision breakfast from 8:00am to help you prepare. You will need to be lined up outside the hall by 8:40am in correct uniform with all the correct equipment (REMEMBER TWO BLACK PENS AND CALCULATOR).

Happy New Year - Exam dates reminder

We hope you all had a great Christmas holidays. Welcome back to school and for those of you in years 9, 10 and 11 here is a reminder of the dates of your exams:

Year 9:
Friday 27th January 2012 (8:45) – Key Stage 3 exam

Year 10:
Thursday 12th January 2012 (8:45) – Science Unit 1 (A141) 1hr
Thursday 12th January 2012 (8:45) – Biology Unit 1 (A161) 1hr
Wednesday 18th January 2012 (8:45) – Science Unit 2 (A142) 1hr
Wednesday 18th January 2012 (8:45) – Chemistry Unit 1 (A142) 1hr
Friday 20th January 2012 (8:45) –Physics Unit 1 (A142) 1hr

YEAR 11:
Tuesday 24th January 2012 (8:45) – Science Unit 1 re-sit (A211) 40mins
Tuesday 24th January 2012 (8:45) – Biology Unit 1 re-sit (A221) 40mins
Thursday 26th January 2012 (8:45) – Science Unit 2 re-sit (A212) 40mins
Thursday 26th January 2012 (8:45) – Chemistry Unit 1 re-sit (A311) 40mins
Monday 30th January 2012 (13:30) – Additional Science Unit 1 (A215) 40mins
Monday 30th January 2012 (13:30) – Physics Unit 1 re-sit (A331) 40mins
Tuesday 31st January 2012 (8:45) – Biology Unit 2 (A222) 40mins
Wednesday 1st February 2012 (13:30) – Chemistry Unit 2 (A322) 40mins
Wednesday 1st February 2012 (13:30) – Science Unit 3 re-sit (A213) 40mins
Thursday 2nd February 2012 (8:45) –Physics Unit 2 (A332) 40mins

Happy Winter Solstice

Today is the shortest day of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere because the tilt of the Earth is pointing the top half of the Earth directly away from the sun. Its cold and dark but just remember that tomorrow, and for the next 182 days, the days will be getting longer and longer!

Last day of term!

Year 7 Athena drying out their chromatography experiments while they write about how the different coloured particles in ink traveled different distances up their filter paper.

Have a great Christmas and enjoy the holidays :o)

Year 9 Exam - 27th January

Year 9 have their end of Key Stage 3 exam on the 27th January which is just 51 days away! Make sure you start your revision soon. The BBC Bitesize page is a great place to start so click on the fish and get started: