NEWS

Year Seven students arrived at school with even higher levels of excitement and anticipation than is usual on Friday 20 October—the day for the annual Year Seven Enterprise event.

Run by the Inspirational Learning Group team, Year Seven Students were set the task of designing a promotional campaign that would promote the benefits of hydrogen-fuelled ...

Sixteen students from Year 10 attended the annual Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival, where they had the opportunity to listen to talks, speak to researchers and undergraduate students, and engage in interactive activities. The programme of talks included:

• Dr Filip Zemrak (Consultant Cardiologist) - Resuscitation talk
• Clinical ...

A selective group sit the BPhO online challenge competition, which means that our students were competing against some of the best physicists in the country. The average score, nationwide, was 23.8 / 40 and the standard deviation 5.6. Our average was 27.2 / 40, with a standard deviation of 3.8. Every Wilson’s student scored highly enough to achieve ...

Just before half term, over 100 students from Years 9-12 competed in teams of five to earn the honour of representing the school in the SATRO problem-solving competition. The teams had an hour to make a lamppost-like structure using only the materials provided to them, which had to be as tall and long as possible and had a working light at the end ...

The school had seven students in Round 1 of the BPhO. This is a highly competitive competition that typically only the strongest students around the country enter. This year 2,830 students from 440 schools participated.

Congratulations to the 35 Lower Sixth students who competed in this year’s Cambridge Chemistry Challenge. Our students were up against thousands of the competitors from some of the best schools in the country. This Olympiad-style challenge consists of a challenging 90-minute paper that contained questions that required the students to extend and ...

Making an early start on their University Preparation Program, eleven enthusiastic Chemistry students from Year 12 attended a Chemistry twilight practical session run by Southampton University a few weeks ago. The aim of such outreach events are to enable sixth form students to experience an undergraduate practical using equipment and techniques ...