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 […]
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 […]
26 Feb 2020
Launceston College would like to reassure all students, parents, staff and visitors that it will continue to follow the Read more →
24 Feb 2020
Launceston College U14 girls football team faced Newquay Treviglas in the 1st round of the Cornwall County cup. It Read more →
14 Feb 2020
As a result of the Year 11 County Cup Final last week Tom Shilling has been selected to represent Read more →