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Science Week
Diversity in Art and Design In Art and Design, the Middle and Senior School students created an art installation inspired by the Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei. As part of a project on Diversity they studied his work,
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‘The Sunflower Seeds’ and the Indigenous Australian art dot technique. The Middle School students made paper sunflowers
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and Senior school students each added a dot to construct the
with a wonderful assembly led by
sunflower. The combined elements for the installation offered
two Sixth Form Scientists.
pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment to all who viewed it.
They demonstrated a mini jet engine simulation and students learned about the turbulent life of Fritz Harber, a Scientist whose inventions are linked to fertilizers that saved millions from starvation, chlorine gas that killed thousands in the war and chemotherapy still being used to saved lives today. Elsewhere in Reddam House, Junior School Science students applied their understanding of forces and Newton’s laws of motion to develop and launch their own water rockets. They compared the acceleration of their rockets in accordance with Newton’s 2nd law: F=m*a. Year 7 conducted an experiment to investigate the ability of a pencil to conduct electricity. Under Dr D’Rozario’s supervision, they made a complete circuit using the graphite inside the wooden pencil and they discovered that the heat from the flow of electrons would cause the wood to catch fire. STEM club students took on a huge project to look at combustion and the impacts, which involved using mathematics, chemistry, engineering and biology. They assembled over 40,000 matches, spelling out the words REDDAM HOUSE and then watched it combust!
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