The theme for this year’s British Science Week was ‘Connections’ to celebrate togetherness after a period where isolation was a sad but necessary reality. To embrace this theme our Science Department collaborated with Hampton Hill Primary School playing host to all three of their Year 5 classes as well as delivering assemblies to our own students. The day gave the students an insight into what it is like to be in a secondary school science classroom whilst allowing them to make use of some of the specialist scientific equipment that may not be available in a typical primary school science lesson.
Mr Godfrey kickstarted each session with an interesting demonstration of static electricity. He introduced the students to the Van de Graff generator as he explained how static electricity can be used to apply a force between objects before calling upon some volunteers to see it in action as their hands moved confetti around the table as if by magic. There is no doubt that this demonstration sparked their curiosity!
As well as doing some amazing Physics, we also showed that Chemistry can be just as fascinating. We showed the students the reaction between solutions of lead nitrate and potassium iodide; two colourless liquids that when mixed produce a vibrant yellow mixture. There was a gasp in the room from the students when the two liquids were mixed and the dramatic transformation occurred.
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