Science Week at All Saints

Science Week kicked off with a visit from ZooLab for our Year 8 students. They each got a turn at handling various animals such as White Tree Frogs, Hissing Cockroaches and even a Corn Snake.

Monday saw our Year 7 and 8 students sign up to dissect a pig trotter to better see the tendons and muscles they had been learning about in their work. Year 9 and 10 students spent time exploring exchange surfaces, removing gills from a salmon before popping out the eye to remove the lens.

Tuesday brought the WonderDome into school for our Year 7 students. Each class had the opportunity to take a tour through our Solar System in the pop-up planetarium in the hall. We also welcomed a STEM Roadshow to help Year 9 students understand material science and explore future career prospects. Students from all year groups were also able to sign up to bake cricket flour cookies after school, made with real roasted and ground crickets!

Wednesday featured our exciting Bangs and Explosions event after school, giving our Science Department the chance to step up to centre stage with demonstrations including whoosh bottles, methane bubbles, flaming money, a screaming jelly baby, a thermite reaction, and we finished the evening with hydrogen rockets.

The week concluded on Thursday with a staff Bushtucker Trial, where staff took turns eating mealworms and crickets with a variety of flavours!