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Biology
The 2019-20 academic year saw many successes, and of course many challenges.
In the Biology Challenge international competition, the Fourth Year students achieved a strong crop of results, with Gold medals for Matthew Russell and Robert Lewis, placing them in the top 5% of the 47,000 students who took part globally.
The Lower Sixth students achieved great success in the Intermediate Biology Olympiad, with a superb four Gold medals for Elizabeth Church, Catherine Gallagher, Ben Cooley and Katie Harris; Charlotte Jackson achieved a Silver; and Bronze medals were awarded to Will Bentley, James Cathrew, Hari Tote, Joss Hall, Sophie Porteous, Tim Matthews and Alice Hewett.
The Upper Sixth students also did well in the senior version of this competition, the Biology Olympiad, with Silver medals for Grace Moritz and Jude Franklin and Bronze medals for Katie Hutchinson, Ben Williams and Fin Egan.
Congratulations to all these students and the other medal winners. The Upper Sixth enjoyed their trip to the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, and the First Years got to experience a full day as ‘Science Explorers’ in October. Fourth Years had an interesting experience on the whole-day ‘GCSE Science Live!’ trip to London, to hear speakers such as Prof Robert Winston and Prof Jim AlKhalili, but sadly the trips and visits later on in the year were unfortunate casualties of lockdown. The Lower Sixth Biology field trip to Slapton Sands in Devon was lost, as was the First Years’ favourite day – Hawkeye Falconry.
Ms M Westwood
