STEM Week

In line with British Science Week, we hosted our own busy week of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths-related activities.

From inter-House Maths challenges to competitive Science quizzes, the whole school community embraced plenty of STEM-related fun. Whilst our debaters argued the pros and cons of incentivising girls to study STEM subjects, other pupils got hands-on, building gear boxes in the DT studios and dissecting sheep hearts in the labs. Other lunchtime and after-school activities included puzzle club contests, robot racing, escape room challenges, film screenings organised by Space Society, and talks from neuroscientist and alumna, Laura Watkins, and a UCL Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry, Nick Lane.

Our students continue to publish articles on the Orbital, a pupil-led platform to promote Science to a broader audience, including a recent interview with a former South Hampstead pupil Camilla Penney, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College Cambridge, who conducts research into how the earth’s continents move and change shape over time.

Our annual photography competition will be running over the holidays, with prizes up for grabs in our annual contest for the most creative and inspiring STEM-related images. Meanwhile, three of our students were shortlisted in the GDST STEM 700-word essay writing contest; congratulations to our finalists – Cat in the Lower Sixth, Talia in Year 11 and Alexandra in Year 9.