Year 10
Maths and Science in the school have experienced history in the making with the CoVid Pandemic. The 10.1 class have been completing a section of work in statistics which we have based our learning around lots of the data being generated by Covid and also the different types of graphs being seen in the media and whether they are infact skewed or misleading. Students have also looked at conducting surveys and learned how bias can easily be introduced. In Year 10 Science we have started a term of Physics with a review of forces leading further into the study of motion with speed and velocity as well as acceleration. The 10.1s started with a groan as they already seen this in maths! The 10.2 class has made balloon rockets to discuss how forces act and viewed and indoor skydiving video. Many of us wanted to give it a go but were not sure how well we would do.

Year 9
The Year 9s have been completing a huge unit of work on Measurement. Mr Schrama's flags of the world assignment asked students to explore the flags of Pantouloni, Edville and Schramaland as well as some of the more conventional countries of Japan, Thailand and Sudan in terms of Area and Perimeter. Students have now moved on to the harder concepts of Volume and Surface Area and will learn Trigonometry as a connected topic later on in the year. In Science students have started with a review of cells and organelles within cells.  We will move onto photosynthesis and respiration next.  The Year 9 will be writing an essay comparing the two processes.  This is not an easy task so they will be well supported and the task stepped out clearly for them.

Year 8
The Year 8s have been exploring space through Tessellations and the drawings of MC Escher. We have been really pleased with some of the designs students have done and hope to feature some of these in a later newsletter. Ournext topic is Measurement followed by good old review of FDP (Fractions, Decimals and Percentages). 

Year 7
The Year 7s have been also been completing work on space in mathematics. They have been exploring everything on angles and have now started looking at polygons with a focus on Triangles and Quadrilaterals. They have started their first steps in Algebra as part of this. In science Year 7 students have started with an introduction to safety.  Some of them even wrote a safety song to show their understanding.  For here we will be further developing our understanding of Chemistry.  They will get to practice their skills in using a bunsen burner to look at phases of matter soon.