Year 8 and 9 pupils involved in ‘Brilliant Club’ had a taste of the life of a university medical student when they attended lectures and seminars at the Guys Hospital campus of Kings College London.
Students were challenged and stretched throughout the day and clearly thrived under the pressure. The tutor working with them was very impressed with the quality of their work and attitude to learning.
Congratulations to our Year 9 student for coming 3rd in the Mayor’s Award for Science competition held this week. She and three other Chace students competed against several other Enfield schools at the competition held at Middlesex Univerisity.
Students involved in the new ‘Chace University’ took part in a seminar on ‘Visual illusions in Psychology’ this week. Ms Legg, who led the session, was very impressed with the extremely high standards of work the students produced in their presentations.
Dr Maria Pavlidou from the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, with Winning students after finding the Higgs Boson and calculating the mass of the Z boson. Using the Atlantis software, students carried out the analysis and calculations in much the same way as the particle Physicists working with the ATLAS detector at CERN.
A team from Year 8 and Year 9 are heading to the finals of the Mayor’s Debate Award in March. This is after representing the school in an intense debate about whether students should have complete free choice in their GCSE options.
Year 12 religious studies students enjoyed a day of lectures with renowned British philosophers Dr Peter Vardy and Dr Bernard Hoose. One of our students articulately argued against the motion ‘this house agrees that euthanasia is the most loving thing to do’ in a debate.
Congratulations to the 43 students who received platinum ties for achieving good grades across all their subjects in the Pre-Public Exams. Students will have two more opportunities to earn ties by showing improvements in their attainment over the coming term.
On 2nd February 2017, Year 9 students were invited to Kingston University, South London, to experience student life there. At the University, they did many activities with other schools: games using transferrable skills like communication, a personality test, discussions about career options and an interview with University students and staff. This informative visit helped them think about choosing the right options for GCSEs and how that will shape their future.
Written by Rene Kande – 9TGo
