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 […]
Last week 44 year 9 students spend Immersive Learning Week at the Eden Project competing in teams to plan a mission to Mars. On Monday they were tasked with building a geodesic dome large enough to fit the team inside. Once we got to Eden the teams were occupied with deciding which plants to take […]
18 Aug 2022
Sixth Form students at Launceston College have once again achieved outstanding A level success this year with 84% of Read more →
17 Aug 2022
Good luck to all our Sixth Form students who will be collecting their results tomorrow. See you from 9am Read more →
11 Aug 2022
We look forward to seeing our Year 7 students who have signed up to Summer School on Monday 15th Read more →