Science

100 years of Science

The Science department has used the School’s anniversary as an opportunity to explore “100 years of Science”. The initiative has been celebrated by three Year 9 students, Havana Lloyd, Jasmine Kirkham and Ella Stenton. They have been producing Art Work on famous British scientists such as Rosalind Franklin, who was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer and made a huge contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA. A collage using chromatograms celebrates the work of Archer Martin who developed paper partition chromatography technique and all the art work will be put on display on the science corridor for everyone to enjoy. A huge thank you to the girls who have worked with such enthusiasm in this area.

Women in STEM Career Day

Physics Olympics Chemistry Olympiad Physics Olympics

Year 8 CREST Awards

Each year, over 32,000 CREST Awards are undertaken by 11 to 19 year-olds, giving them opportunities to explore real-world science, technology, engineering and maths projects in an exciting way. CREST is a UK award scheme that recognises success, and enables students to build their skills and demonstrate personal achievement in project work. It offers educators an easy-to-run framework for curriculum enhancement and is student-led, which means that young people take ownership of their projects and choose to undertake them in areas they enjoy or see as relevant. A group of Year 8 pupils at Bolton School Girls’ Division achieved their Bronze awards, which involved around 10 hours of project work. Cassia Drummond, Hafsa Qadeer, Anna Swarbrick and Shivani Chohan investigated the V itamin C content in fizzy drinks. Other pupils completed project work on the acid content of fizzy drinks. These pupils were: Honey Higham, Cate Lord, Aamina Patel, Amy Potter, Lauren Whitaker, Lauren Pursey, Hannah Rayner, Rachel McGinty, Sana Saleem, Neha Bagewadi, Emma Sellwood, Ella Fullelove, Rachel Care, Imane Nagi, Amy Mackie, Hafsa Syed, Sharon Daniel, Bryony Meech, Ingrid Lam, Jessica Chae, Lima Assi, Carla Law, Safia Kapadia and Hana Hanif. Well done to the girls on all their hard work.

Ogden Trust

On the 8th April 2015, seven Year 10 girls from Bolton School Girls’ Division joined around 40 students from a number of local Bolton Schools and set off on a three-day residential trip to Keble College, Oxford University to learn more about Physics and Mathematics through lectures, challenges and activities. We learnt about engineering and the different courses available for study in this area at the University. In the Computer Science Faculty, following lectures on aspects of computer science forensic crimes, undergraduates from Oxford University taught us the basics of programming language through practical challenges. Later, at the Natural History Museum, we had great fun learning about evolution and some lucky pupils got the chance to hold a giant hissing cockroach. The event was funded by the Ogden Trust. It gave students the opportunity to have a brief experience of life as a student at one of the country’s top universities and also to think about Physics in new situations.