We are piloting a new initiative this half term, and would welcome your feedback. Please email the Office for the attention of Mr Eynon with any feedback please. We’d like to share, with you, a small selection of the wonderful work that students at Darrick Wood School have completed this half term. Open Evening this year was a resounding success, and students who represented the school, both on the evening and through display of their work, were complimented by our…
On the 3rd May four Year 12 students completed their Celebration and Assessment Day as part of a six-month engineering project they have been working on with the Engineering Education Scheme. The students presented their project ‘The Taming of the Drone’; in which they researched the potential implementation of a drone café and presented this concept to a panel of assessors. The students worked with two engineering mentors from the engineering training provider IPS International throughout the six-months, developing their…
Chemistry students at Darrick Wood School Orpington are the proud recipients of extra resources to support their study of A Level Chemistry thanks to a generous grant from The Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry have been incredibly supportive and the additional resources they have provided will enable students, many of whom harbour ambitions to become chemical engineers, biochemists and medical doctors, to work more independently and enhance their understanding of Chemistry.
Nine Year 8 and Year 9 pupils from Darrick Wood School attended the Bromley Gifted and Talented Science and Technology day at the University of Greenwich. Working in pairs as part of teams of four with pupils from schools throughout the Borough the pupils took on a set of challenges. These included E-fit profiling, programming robots, dragster races and a medical challenge. Darrick Wood pupils were victorious in the robot and medical challenge. The Mayor of Bromley, Kathy Bance MBE, presented…
Congratulation to our Y8 scientists, who did brilliantly in the annual Salters’ Chemistry Festival. Our budding young chemists were up against some stiff competition from 25 other schools from in and around London (a mixture of independent, grammar, academy and comprehensive schools). There were two competitions held throughout the day. Our pupils did so well that they were placed 1st in the second challenge titled “The University Challenge”. The judges commented on their fantastic team effort to problem solve and analyse…
The Chemistry students in Year 12 and Year 13 had the opportunity to use some very special equipment today when former Darrick Wood teacher, Mrs Nuttall, returned in her new role as an outreach coordinator for Reading University. Working in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry Mrs Nuttall brought along £15 000 worth of Infra Red spectrometer, a device used by chemists to analyse and identify unknown chemicals; something students don’t usually see until they go to university themselves….
Former pupil Alex Tait took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Year 10 Triple Scientists and A level Scientists about his work and life as a chemical engineer working for the oil giant BP. Alex who is currently based in Baku, Azerbaijan works as a process engineer on one of the largest oil production projects in the world. He talked about his experiences at Darrick Wood and how he was inspired to take up Chemical Engineering because…
Next week (12th – 14th July 2016) is Darrick Wood School STEM Week. The week will see pupils from years 7, 8 and 9 take part in a variety of tasks. Please download the information for parents and carers here, for additional information: Parent and carer information – STEM Week 2016 We look forward to a fantastic STEM Week 2016!
Last term a group of 15 year 10 pupils attended a Medical Day at Bromley College, along with pupils from two other Bromley Schools. They had the opportunity to take part in hands on practical workshops. In one workshop the pupils were provided with patient histories, laboratory results and X-rays to diagnose patients. In another workshop they completed CPR and learnt the recovery position for an unconscious casualty and then had the opportunity to discuss medical ethics. Here they got…
Six Year 12 and 13 students from Darrick Wood attended the Particle Physics Masterclass at University College London. They were treated to a crash course in fundamental particles and then had to use this knowledge to analyse data from the Atlas detector. The group then had an excellent lecture on Dark Matter which detailed some current research in the race to discover what it is. The students then continued to analyse track data from the detector. This data was then…