Students Try Science in Summer
Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT
Gloucestershire schools are leading the way with the first Science Summer School for county pupils.
From Monday to Friday next week, 48 pupils will attend a residential school at Cheltenham Ladies' College.
They will hear presentations by scientists on the Life and Death of the Dinosaurs and join in a session of creative science and drama, bringing a fresh approach to how science is communicated.
They will try fossil hunting, building solar powered cars, setting up and observing late-night moth collections and visit the chemistry department at Bristol University.
The school will draw to a close with a Whiz Bang presentation from "the Nigella of Science", Dr Laura Grant.
Pupils from Winchcombe, Pittville, Chosen Hill and Bournside schools, Christ College and the Ladies' College, among others, are all part of a Gifted and Talented programme aimed at raising the standards of science in schools.
Spokesman Simon Kettle said: "Although this is aimed at gifted and talented students, the whole idea of the programme is that many of the activities we are doing can be repeated back in the classroom encouraging schools to deliver engaging and creative science lessons to everyone."
Ro Kaye, a physics teacher at the Ladies' College and one of the organisers of the project, said schools had worked together on "engaging the pupils to ensure they develop a lifelong love of science".
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