Scientific St Bede’s is Rocketing

31 March 2009

Students at St Bede’s Catholic College in the heart if Bristol’s Lawrence Weston took part in a wide range of activities during the recent National Science and Engineering Week.

The acclaimed film ‘Your Planet, produced by year eight pupils at top-rated college was shown in the entrance foyer throughout the week.

The Science Faculty ran lunchtime activities for lower school pupils, including rocket building, making parachutes for eggs and setting fire to bridges. These exciting activities were also taken to a number of the college’s partner primary schools.

St Bede’s hosted an Armageddon themed competition, giving pupils from local schools the opportunity to visit the college and spend an afternoon building space shuttles and moon-landers in laboratories.

A number of pupils were shown a TV documentary ‘Rocket Science’ in their English lessons and asked to respond to it, giving their personal take on science lessons at St Bede’s.

A few of their responses are listed below:

“This boy said that ‘science is boring’, I disagree with him strongly, as the subjects hold the key to our future. You can enjoy an inspirational job if you get good science GCSEs.”

“A girl said that ‘you just copy from a book’, I disagree, I think that science is really fun because we have brilliant lessons. We burn stuff, use acids and learning is fun.”

“I found out that half the kids in the country think that science is boring.  For me, science lessons are a treat."