Year 7 Science Club

When we first signed up for the Science Club we did not really know what to expect, who was to run the club and what we would be doing!  We then found out that a Mr Chester Lewis, a final year Physics undergraduate from Birmingham University, would be leading the sessions – we were quite happy because we thought that he might not be as strict as our Science teachers are!

We have carried out a lot of activities in our sessions including:

Making telescopes: We had a variety of equipment for making our telescope including a 1 metre rule and lenses of different focal lengths.  Our aim was to position the lenses on the metre rule to produce magnified images of objects and then read a code at the far end of the laboratory using our telescopes.

Forces: In pairs we were given an egg and some other supplies including a sponge, string and pipe cleaner.  We had to secure the egg as much as possible so when we dropped it, it would not crack.  My pair and another group won the weekly prize of a can of coke and a chocolate bar.

Solar power:  We each had an electric lamp and a solar cell. We started off by testing how much voltage the cell produced when close to the lamp and then at different distances until it was 70cm away.  We then investigated how the voltage output would change when we filtered the light using different coloured filters.

We also enjoyed sessions on Space, pressure and wind turbines.

In conclusion I think that Science Club was an amazing extra-curricular activity because of the work and effort put in by Mr Lewis, Mr Mohsin and Mr Jones and of course the pupils that went to the Club!

Yashryan Singh Mahi 7W