Backwell
School celebrated National Science Week from 11 – 19 March, and we had the biggest celebration of any school in the area for the second year in a row. We had a wealth of outside experts and school based experts doing hundreds of enrichment and extension activities for both students and staff.
Iain Slade, Head of Science, co-ordinated the week and has highlighted some of the main events here.
‘This year’s Science Week was our greatest one yet. We have had a wide range of activities planned for Year 7 to Year 13. There were many highlights but one was the Sixth Form dissections that took place on the Wednesday – very educational and rewarding - if not gruesome at times!!!
The week culminated in a demonstration of a hovercraft by Ross Floyd who talked about the engineering behind hovercrafts before taking students and staff out of a thrilling, spinning ride across the school fields.
Year 9 students had spent all week designing and making their own hovercraft competing to see who had built the best - their prize was a remote control hovercraft plus the chance to pilot the real hovercraft in the school grounds with Ross!
We were lucky enough to have a visit from Pete Dawson with his “big bug bag” containing all manner of weird and wonderful exotic creatures including spiders, stick insects and scorpions which was lots of fun and also very informative.
Thank you to everyone for their efforts in making Backwell Science Week a true celebration of the sciences and inspiring the future generations of scientists.’
Science Week
