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This week, we welcomed fifteen members of the student body onto the Student Leadership Team for 2021-2022. The team are an integral part of our community, representing the School externally and providing support during a number of events, such as open mornings and parents’ evenings. They also meet regularly with senior teaching staff, making sure…

Lower Sixth Biologists have been studying antibiotics, culminating in a practical lesson where the group tested various antibiotic samples. In preparation for this lesson, the students grew different types of bacteria in petri dishes, using agar agar gel to provide nutrients whilst avoiding contamination. They then took care to use aseptic techniques to maintain a…

Elephant’s toothpaste – so called for its resemblance to toothpaste being squeezed from a tube, on a giant scale, is a fun and showy Chemistry experiment to aid the teaching of ‘catalysts’ and ‘decomposition’. Hydrogen peroxide breaks down slowly into water and oxygen. Adding a catalyst (in this case, potassium iodide) speeds up this decomposition….

Year 8 have been learning about digestion in their recent Science lessons. They have been considering the physical mechanisms involved with processing food in the body, as well as the chemical processes involved. To demonstrate the effects of stomach acid on ingested bones, Dr Aspey showed the students chicken bones which had been left to…

Each year, St Edward’s Lower School pupils take part in the LTA Tennis For Britain ‘Road to Wimbledon Tennis Challenge’. The biggest junior tournament in British tennis, the competition gives all U14 players the opportunity to engage and play the sport. The Senior School Sport Department have been holding the first stage of the competition…

A group of five engineering hopefuls in Lower Sixth have been meeting every week for the last six months, as part of their Industrial Cadets Gold Award. The Award links teams of students and their teachers with local companies, enabling them to work on real-life, scientific, engineering and technology projects. A minimum of 50 hours…

Students in Years 9 and 11 took part in a special online session run by the UK Parliament Learning today. The one-hour workshop aimed to introduce the Parliamentary system in the UK and explain the roles of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. During the session they also covered the work of…

The 10X Challenge (previously, ‘The Tenner Challenge’) is an annual enterprise competition for young people aged between 11 and 18 years old. The Challenge is run by Young Enterprise, the UK’s leading enterprise and financial education charity. Each team of budding entrepreneurs are given £10 to get their business idea off the ground and are…

Year 7 have been enjoying a return to their practical Music lessons, developing the HPL skills for collaboration and perseverance. They have been exploring folk music in its many forms in recent lessons. At the end of last term, the students were learning the well-known ditty, ‘Drunken Sailor’, which they have been practising hard in…

This term, Year 8 have been studying puppetry in Drama, starting online at home and continuing in person following the return to onsite learning in the studio. The students worked collaboratively to create large paper puppets, inspired by Japanese ‘Bunraku’ puppetry. The biggest challenge was working together to bring the puppet to life and get…