woodchurch science

some excellent work here: laura cross, jenna-leigh rimmer and ross rule, rachel and toni, kate leadbetter, amy cook, richard noonan. well done everyone.

woodchurch were one of nine schools across the country, who were selected as winners for the rolls-royce science prize for the years 2006-2007, and that was out of over 300 applications. we were given an immediate grant of £5000, to get our project ‘up and running’. with that money, we bought a 18 servo robot, called geoff, all the necessary tools and equipment to help create our robot, a laptop especially for robotics and with £1,500 of the money, we paid for all supply covering costs. in june of 2007, we find out whether or not we have won an extra £15,000 to expand and develop our project further, and to help facilitate our future needs. also if we win, we will have a day out with the red arrows, and we will also have a trip to the rolls-royce major factory, where they develop air-craft engines. You can get more information about the project here. you can also meet the team in their own video clip.

we need a photo of geoff!!

by ellen williams 8yw :on thursday 30th march, a lecturer from liverpool university named ‘sian owen’ visited our school to present a lecture to year 8 science sets called ‘science is cool’. all of the science groups in year 8 came to watch the fascinating experiments that were performed. (more…)

currently tied at 3-3

03.05.06 winners 7yf
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matthew melling has written a presentation about asimo, honda’s advanced humanoid robot. find out more about asimo here.

7xf christie jackson/charlotte blundell, matthew parsons/daniel king, harriet cavanagh/eleanor keenan, dean mcginn, jayde hughes, adam thomas/michael fogg, tom molloy, katie portbury/amy hayes/harriet mckay, jamie bradley/robert rogers, (more coming soon)

7yf john seddon, matthew borrill, ben gornall, (more coming soon)

mr warren has also prepared this presentation about endangered plants

I know what you think, it’s a science lecture, and you’ve probably remembered science lectures to be boring, boring, boring! But this science lecture was different. It was brilliant.

Now when it first started, I didn’t know what to think. Would it be boring, would it be interesting, but like I said, it was brilliant. First of all, they lectured us on a bit of science like most lectures do, and then, it started to get good. The lecturers (the people giving the lecture), shook up a closed bottle of water without telling us what chemicals were inside, the water turned blue! What a surprise! But the next experiment they shown us was booming. like before, they gave us a little lecture about that they were going to make a flame near an object and watch the surprising results. The object exploded! And not just a little explosion, it was a massive explosion! And now enough of that, now on to the next part. This time, there were no explosions, but instead some useful information. Did you know, the bombardier beetle can shoot fire out of its bottom? So when any beetle eating ants come along, lets just say they will feel the burn! Afterwards, the lecturers shown us a little something called liquid nitrogen. It is a freezing liquid at a whopping -196°C! It’s alright if you get sprayed with it, it evaporates in a second! But when you put something in a vat of it, the matter becomes a totally different matter. If you put something in it, it freezes and can be smashed in half on a table!

7xf dale tomlinson, charlotte blundell/christie jackson, amy hayes/lisa hill/harriet mckay, michael fogg, jodie barber, matthew parsons/arron bayley, jamie bradley

7yf john seddon, matthew borrill, charlotte rogers, will tedstone, liam vaughan, alanna grant