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There are too many people to thank properly in this short space for the planning and smooth running of Science Week 2013, but briefly, thanks must go to all of the staff of the Science Faculty....
For more information about the Science Faculty please contact:
Mr J Barot (Head of Science) The Godolphin and Latymer School, Iffley Road, London W6 0PG T: 020 8741 1936 E: jbarot@godolphinandlatymer.com www.godolphinandlatymer.com
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14-22 March 2013 saw us celebrate another hugely exciting and busy Science Week at Godolphin, with most girls in the school involved in some way, as well as many students from other schools. We started on the first Thursday with the LV visit to the Big Bang Fair at London’s ExCeL centre, where the whole year group got to experience up close and personal the wealth of Science and Engineering that goes on in the UK and the myriad, varied career opportunities that exist. The next day was Science Night Club, our annual LIV Science sleep-over where the girls and their Sixth Form helpers had the chance to make some funky LED writing photographs and, for the first time this year, get up close and personal with a range of exotic creatures – cockroaches to chameleons, snakes to skunks and so much more – before spending the night in the labs, ready for a quiz and the customary balloon release in the morning. The following Monday evening saw over 70 Sixth Form students from four schools compete in our Science Pub Quiz, and on the Tuesday the LV, UV and all Sixth Form scientists attended the Senior Debating Final – fittingly the motion, “This house would make the study of Science compulsory in the Sixth Form”, was carried! Wednesday evening saw 15 of our UV girls head over to St Paul’s School to compete in their Engineering Challenge. On the Thursday, we were again very fortunate to welcome the outstanding Science Museum outreach team to Godolphin whose shows dazzled and enthralled out girls from UIII to UIV as well as Years 7 and 8 from the West London Free School and children from two local primary schools.
The “week” culminated in a fantastic, eye- (and ear-) opening demonstration lecture from Steve Mould on optical and audio illusions and what they revealed about the way our brains work, attended by over 250 students from Godolphin and other schools. Just as last year our Lower School Science Club, SciZmic, also incubated a number of chicken eggs which hatched during Science Week. These beautifully cute little chicks got a lot of attention from all comers once they were hatched, both in person and through the live webcam, which again had thousands of hits during the week. The week was, as is now the norm, an entertaining and fun-packed way of experiencing and interacting with Science beyond the classroom in a variety of ways. Together with a number of other events and initiatives that the Science Faculty has run, it continues to help raise the profile of Science for our girls both within school, and looking to the future beyond school. It is for this reason first and foremost that we look forward to planning and running these events each and every year, and after a very brief rest, planning is already underway for next year’s to be even bigger and better! If you are interested in reading about any of these events in more detail, please do get in touch. A special issue of our Science Magazine, Absolute Zero (written by the girls for the girls), is due out early in the summer term and we would be delighted to send you a copy.