SLT Update March 16th 2018
16th March 2018
- Students have been treated to a fun-filled week of Science this week. British Science Week started with some pupils taking part in the Society of Biology’s Biology Challenge. This challenge is UK-wide among all KS3 and KS4 pupils - results will be available at the end of March. Normal Science lessons have been suspended this week, so that pupils can try out fun experiments and a quiz - prizes will be given out next week.
- During lunchtimes our pupils have attended special sessions: making crystal gardens in jam jars; creating volcanoes and watching ‘lava’ flow; launching water rockets into the air; watching a rat dissection. For the first time at MVC, we have been able to get liquid nitrogen into school, thanks to Homerton College. Dr Wilson showed how extremely low temperatures change the properties of different things then smashed them to pieces! As a finale, pupils were shown how to make raspberry ice cream in 15 seconds - then were able to sample it.
- Today Mrs Mayhead, our Gifted and Talented coordinator, invited 140 Year 5 pupils from our feeder primary schools into our Science department to experience ‘Big School’. There were huge smiles all around among these pupils, as they learned about chemicals inside fireworks, how hearing works, how to extract iron from matches, how static electricity can be used to move objects, how light refracts and how our eyes can fool us! Huge thanks to all our Year10 helpers - they were so helpful and friendly!
- Yesterday, MVC students took part in the national BBC School Report. This an annual event in which students of all ages get the chance to learn more about the news reporting process, with all writing, filming and editing being completed by the students themselves. Do see the results of our students’ work on Facebook.
- Yesterday Jenny Elliott, Vicky Kay and Sambor Czarnawski-Iliev took part in the UK Maths Challenge Round 2 which is only eligible for those who scored exceptionally well in round 1. Congratulations to them for qualifying for this round and let’s hope they can again do very well.
- Are you worried about your child or young person? Anxiety? Mental health? Drugs and alcohol? ‘Listen’ is a parent to parent support group in Cambridge, which meets 6.30pm - 8.30pm on the last Thursday of every month at Trumpington Meadows Primary School. For more info, contact n_baffa@yahoo.co.uk
Have a good weekend.
Regina Lawrence
Deputy Principal
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