Thank you to all staff who created a brilliant Science Week around the theme ‘Change and Adapt’. Students across the Juniors and Seniors were in their ‘element’ taking part in a whole range of different scientific and eco activities.

In the Senior School, the activities were the very embodiment of playful scholarship in action: bath bomb-making and water filtration workshops; a Science Quiz; the chance to present 5 minute lecture on a STEM topic of their choice; and a visit from the South East Rivers Trust, who gave an assembly to Y7 and Y8 on environmental matters and their work on the River Wandle. Miss Healey (Chemistry) also led a book club, in conjunction with World Book Day on Monday 17 March, to discuss The God Equation by Michio Kaku.

In the Junior School, upper and lower year groups worked together on experiments in the Science Lab, collaborative lessons and fun science quizzes. Pupils also entered the British Science Week poster competition, designing factual and engaging posters based on the theme ‘Change and Adapt’. How the human body adapts to hot and cold temperatures, how chameleons change their colour, how astronauts adapt to life in space… there was a wide range of different topics covered! You can view entries on Firefly here.

For Eco Day on 17 March, Juniors planted cress in recycled, clean yoghurt containers that they brought in from home and were encouraged to wear clothes that had been pre-loved – bought in a charity shop or handed down from an older sibling, for example – and to bring in a donation for Wimbledon Foodbank, the Junior School charity.