Mycology Club

This year the science department introduced a new after school club that focuses on fungi.

Mr Rose have been working with Year 7 and Year 8 students on some very exciting stuff, indeed. Yesterday, in Mycology club the students learnt to clone mushrooms. The pupils used fresh mushrooms on agar plates after disinfecting them with ethanol. They were introduced to antiseptic techniques to avoid contamination once the mushrooms were dissected. If they were successful, then the results would be visible within 5 days of cloning.

Year 7 Maths

7WT had a great lesson using one of the card games developed by the maths department to help them remember the different number properties. The students enjoyed the competition element as well as peer assessing each other's work. At the end of the lesson students commented on how much fun the lesson was and how much they could remember.

Thermite

During today`s demonstration , 10W4 observed the highly exothermic reaction between aluminium and iron (III) oxide that produces molten iron. Mr Rose explained that aluminium is above iron in the reactivity series , and how it is used as fuel in this redox reaction to reach temperatures as high as 2000 degrees Celsius . Students learnt that the practical use of this reaction would be the welding of the railway lines .