Science Faculty Update

On Tuesday 16 April, 30 Year 10 students headed to Birmingham University to enjoy, firstly, a tour of the Campus and, secondly, to hear the annual Institute of Physics Lecture. This year’s offering, ‘Defying Gravity’, was delivered by Laura Thomas and covered how Physics has allowed us to travel into space, how scientists create materials to withstand the extreme conditions above the Earth’s atmosphere, and how entrepreneurs are opening up space to new generations through space tourism.

Congratulations to Year 12 student Gulfraz Ahmed who, on Thursday 20 June, received an award as our ‘Physics Student of the Year’ for Birmingham and Solihull Schools at a ceremony held at Birmingham University’s Physics Department. The certificates were presented by the Head of School (of Physics and Astronomy) Professor Andy Schofield and Wendy Cox, representing The Ogden Trust, who sponsor the prizes. Gulfraz, together with other award winners and invited guests, also enjoyed a tour of the Department and heard a lecture by Professor David Evans, Particle Physics Researcher at Birmingham, about Birmingham’s work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Mr P Jones