In November, we launched the CREST Awards programme for Year 9 students. CREST is a scheme that inspires young people to think and behave like scientists and engineers. Bronze Awards introduce students to project work empowering them to work like real scientists, technologists, engineers or mathematicians. Students choose their own topics and methodologies, giving them complete freedom over their work.

Our thirteen CREST award students in Year 9 have been making great progress with their plans and have begun to think about the equipment and resources that they will need to carry out their independent investigations. Dr Spinks has been proud of the fearless attitudes that she has seen and, with experiments nearly ready to begin, we should start to get some results over the next few weeks!