Mental Health Week

08 Summer Term

Science Week

We exploded into Science Week with a wonderful assembly led by two Sixth Form Scientists.

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!

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, ‘The Sunflower Seeds’ and the Indigenous Australian art dot technique. The Middle School students made paper sunflowers and Senior school students each added a dot to construct the sunflower. The combined elements for the installation offered pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment to all who viewed it.

09 Summer Term

Boarding News

The Spring term has offered the ‘light at the end of the winter tunnel’ and with the COVID restrictions lifting, it has meant that the Boarding Community has been able to move back rapidly towards normality with more mixing, sharing and most of all, fun!!

We have been able to run a full programme of weekend trips and evening activities, as well as our normal prep arrangements. In school, the term has been action packed with lots of House events, talks, fixtures, mocks and exam preparations. With the warmer and lighter evenings returning slowly, it has been lovely to see boarders sitting outside and enjoying the wonderful campus again, without masks and metre gaps between them, or bubbles!

This term has also signalled the birth of the third boarding house at Reddam, with ‘The Loft’ opening at the start of the spring term and slowly expanding with the final piece of phase one, the cinema room, expected to be completed by the start of the summer term. It has offered us a truly wonderful space to live and grow up in!

Mr Andy Towse Director of Boarding