Hymers success in Chemistry Olympiad

The Royal Society of Chemistry runs an extremely challenging written examination for school students each January as part of its selection process for a team to take part in the International Chemistry Olympiad.

... more Chemistry success!

Top of the Bench!

A team from Hymers won second place in the Hull and East Yorkshire regional heat of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s competition Top of the bench.

Maud and Nandhan (Year 9), Adwaya (Year 10) and Methum (Year 11) undertook two extremely demanding tasks, which were assessed with typical rigour by judges from the local chemical industry.

Methum captained the team extremely well in this intensely scholarly endeavour.

All the team won Amazon vouchers worth £35, which they fully deserve.

Normally Year 12 students do not enter the competition as the topics covered are almost all more advanced than they have so far studied. However this year an incredibly enthusiastic set of Year 12 pupils also wanted to join in the Olympiad.

Our students did exceptionally well.

Zain (Year 12), Dylan (Year 12) and Joel (Year 12) attained bronze certificates. Diya (Year 13) and Huarui (Year 13) gained silver certificates and Gaurav (Year 13), Matthew (Year 12) and Kushal (Year 12) won gold certificates, equalling a record haul in a single year for Hymers, and bringing our total of golds to 21.

This is appropriate recognition at national level of outstanding students of academic Chemistry. All the pupils produced excellent results and particular praise goes to Matthew. His score put him in the top 100 of the entry of 8700 elite chemists nationally. Well done everyone.

The next generation of coding wizards!

We have a busy and active coding club running every Thursday lunchtime in our Junior School for our Year 6 pupils thanks to Mr Bloomfield.

The Club has been a real hit as pupils learn to use Scratch software (a high-level block-based visual programming language and website) and uncover other coding secrets! The Club has also been supported by some of our older Year 13 pupils who have been showing our Year 6 pupils how to use Python - the software used in the Senior School.

It is fantastic to see our older pupils supporting younger pupils develop their coding skills. These skills really compliment, and in some cases extend, what the children learn in lessons.