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 […]
In March 2019, Miss Bateman’s Year 10 separate science class sat the Royal Society of Biology Challenge paper, which consisted of two online tests lasting around an hour in total. These were multiple choice questions requiring fact recall and logical thinking skills. The tests really pushed the student’s knowledge and understanding, covering some content beyond […]
On Tuesday 16 July, Café Sci hosted their annual competition for Year 12 students, and this year Launceston College students were joined by those from our MAT partner Bideford College. Each student gave a 15 minute lecture on a topic of their choice to an audience including distinguished scientists along with many of us who […]
Since the autumn, a number of Year 12 students have been spending Friday lunchtimes with Dr Lancaster to prepare for the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for Lower Sixth (or C3L6). The questions are based on AS chemistry content, but tend to be very abstract. The students prepared by looking at various cryptic chemistry questions where they […]
Thirty students attended a chemistry day for girls at Plymouth University on Friday 14th June 2019. It was to get students excited and inspired by chemistry and to give them more information about what a chemistry degree could lead to in the future. We heard stories from several chemists about their routes through education into […]
On Tuesday 4th June Year 9 were treated to a fantastic day of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) based activities and workshops led by a range of local professionals who all have STEM-based careers. In the morning the students were given a brilliant demonstration of solid, liquid and gas properties in a fantastic live […]
On Friday 17th May, 12 Year 7 students embarked on a trip to the Met Office in Exeter to take part in a whole range of workshops on all things weather related, and even got to camp out overnight! The students learned all about how temperature and wind affect weather patterns, got to make their […]
This year was the third in a row where Bideford College hosted Dr Peter Hoare as he delivered a very well-received revision workshop. The event ran over the weekend of 11 and 12 May. On Saturday the 11th, the focus was Year 12 chemistry content. On the Sunday, Peter moved on to covering Year 13 […]
On Thursday 2nd May, nearly 70 Year 11 students stayed after College to attend a science revision webinar on achieving success in their upcoming GCSE examinations. The webinar provided valuable insight into how to avoid common mistakes in science exams, including graph drawing, tables, and completing maths-based questions. The students all applied themselves fantastically and […]
The British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) is a charitable trust that operates out of the Physics Department at Oxford University. The BPhO offers challenges each year to budding physicists who are secondary school age. Whilst physics is inherently all about problem solving, the aim of these challenges is to push students beyond their current qualification level […]
15 Aug 2019
Sixth Form students at Launceston College achieved excellent results again this year. Head of Sixth Form Jenn Burn Read more →
23 Jul 2019
Last week 21 Year 12 and 13 students went to Geneva to visit the largest scientific experiment in the Read more →
19 Jul 2019
In March 2019, Miss Bateman’s Year 10 separate science class sat the Royal Society of Biology Challenge paper, which Read more →