Spectacular Science Week
Science Week proved to be lots of fun, with ‘Acts of Random Science’ released daily onto Canvas and a highly engaging and interactive Science Pentathlon which challenged our students to fully embrace this year’s theme of ‘Game Changers and Change Makers’!
Taking inspiration from Baron Pierre de Coubertin, our Science Department devised an elaborate scientific pentathlon with five events that challenged our students to collaborate, communicate, reason, investigate, evaluate and problem solve.
Girls from different year groups formed into teams to compete in spelling, trivia, engineering challenge, a photo challenge, and an epic Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality scavenger hunt.
For the spelling challenge, the girls were asked to spell a broad selection of scientific words, with a varying degree of difficulty. This included words like acceleration, chromosome, quantitative, quokka and buoyancy. And while our budding scientists might know all about the organelles found in the cells of every complex organism, try spelling mitochondria! It invoked much gnashing of teeth and groaning!
The Trivia challenge was not without controversy, with the question, ‘Where would you find Curiosity and Opportunity?’ proving divisive. The answer is of course, Mars as they are rovers, but some groups were adamant that the answer was 韩国AV!
The engineering challenge to build the highest tower with one pack of cards was trickier than it looked. It was of course, ‘all about the base, the base, the base….’
The highlight for many of the students was the immersive scavenger hunt, which saw students become ‘Googley-eyed’ as they walked around the School, stopping to find letters that were lurking in the ether behind trees or hidden in the vertical garden. To the untrained eye, it all looked quite funny.
Congratulations to the winning team of Sophie (Year 10), Sophie (Year 10), Grace (Year 8), Ashley (Year 10), Essie (Year 8) and Carmela (Year 10) who proved to be the ultimate change makers and game changers.
A huge thank you to Ms Woodward and the Science Department who put in an incredible amount of hard work to bring this to life. It was fabulous!