The annual visit to the Large Hardron Collider (LHC) in Geneva has been cancelled. However all was not lost, on Wednesday A level physics and chemistry students were given a virtual tour by 2 nuclear engineers at CERN, Giovanni Porcellana and Virginial Azzolini. The presentation covered some of the cutting edge physics that is happening […]
Year 7 have been learning about Mars in Science and explored the possibility of its benefits as a holiday destination.
Over the last 4 weeks all year 7 and year 8 students have been competing in the inaugural Launceston College Discovery Prize. The challenge was to research a topic of science that interests them and present it in an engaging way. The science department were extremely impressed with the quality of research and presentation of […]
Louis Jones has used his initiative and curiosity to find out more about chemistry and different art mediums. He has used a chemistry at home kit to produce an amazing geode and a range of bring & colour resources to produce some original art work, super effort Louis, well done.
Year 13 Geologists visited Dorset’s Jurassic Coast on Friday as part of their fieldwork for A level geology. In the morning students visited Charmouth Visitors Centre and were able to examine a range of high quality reptile and ammonite specimens and listen to a talk from one of the wardens about the area’s importance. In […]
On Wednesday 11 December, Dr Lancaster took 4 students to The University of Exeter to take part in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Top of the Bench competition. The students were taken into an undergraduate teaching laboratory to carry out an investigation. At this time of year, we are told that getting plenty of vitamin […]
On Friday 29th November the Year 13 geology students attended their first of two pieces of A Level fieldwork. The trip included two sites; the first visiting Roadford reservoir and dam to discuss the engineering geology involved in building such an impressive and useful structure. The second site took us to the village of Minions, […]
The Eco-Committee are very proud to announce that the recycling of all paper and cardboard can now take place in College. Recycling bins lined with black bags are where paper and cardboard should be placed, and we ask that no other refuse is put in to these bins as this will mean that the bag […]
On Monday 25th November some of our Eco-Committee members took part in a video call to Chennai, India to discuss issues related to climate change with the students there. Our members were asked lots of questions by their counterparts in India, ranging from UK policy on tackling climate change, to how we as a school […]
Last week 21 Year 12 and 13 students went to Geneva to visit the largest scientific experiment in the World. They had the chance to go 100 metres underground to visit one of the 4 detector sites on the Large Hadron Collider, the Compact Muon Solenoid. Although they neither discovered any new particles or met […]