Marine Biology Club

Marine Biology Club saw three big new developments:

1) The students have created a new rota for checking in the fish, feeding them, and testing and changing the water when necessary. Thank you to Estelle B for her expert rota-drawing skills! Ruby C and Alexa L-B did a great job of changing most of the water this week, giving our fishy friends a nice clean tank.

2) The students have begun designing the ornaments that they hope to make in the Ceramics Room. Mr Gittins will be casting a keen eye over the designs and visiting Marine Biology Club to guide the students through the design process.

3) And finally, the biggest news of all…we have two new fish!!! Added to our growing fish community are:

● a beautiful pink and purple Siamese fighter fish who has added some much needed colour and vibrancy

● and a not so beautiful but every bit as much loved and appreciated brown pleco sucker fish who will keep our tank clear of algae.

Year 7 & 8 Science Club

Recently the girls built electric motors. Did you know that your family probably owns hundreds of modern electric motors of varying sizes? They might power your washing machine or the electric windows in your car or the turntable in your microwave oven; tiny ones might even lurk inside the laptop you are reading this on.

Motors might appear magical or complex but they are actually only made out of 2 fundamental parts: copper wire and magnets. We were able to get our ‘home made’ motors to work well and spin around at high speed.

Robotics Club

In the Robotics club the pupils started their activity by investigating the time taken for the different movements of their Marty Robots. Next they coded functions to make a series of movements. The pupils then analysed the rhythm and timings in their favourite songs.Their challenge was to sync the robot’s movements with their song and code their Robot to do a seamless dance routine. The dances were asynchronous to begin with but by the end of the session, we witnessed some fantastic Robot dancing.