British Science Week 2025

British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place from 7-16 March 2025. This year the theme of the week is ‘adapt and change’, and St Bart’s are joining schools around the country to raise awareness, spark enthusiasm and celebrate science.

St Bart’s Science faculty have been busy organising activities for the students over the course of the coming weeks. On Monday, Year 7 enjoyed the traditional Whizz Bang assembly with Head of Science, Dr Alonzi. There were explosions, jelly beans, hair-raising experiments and much more! All students are welcome to another chance to see a thrilling Whizz Bang show during Activity Time on Friday 14 March.

As British Science Week coincides with National Careers Week, Year 7 are also looking at science careers in their lessons. Mrs Woodgate will be holding a fascinating Full Pheasant Dissection, with an open invitation to all students, and Dr Costambeys will be running a ‘design a lab coat’ competition and challenging our Year 7, 8 and 9 to get creative. Students can collect a template from their tutors and there are prizes to be won. Dr Costambeys will also be choosing the best to be entered for the national competition.

Next week sees the return of the House Science competition on Wednesday 12 March, when student teams from each House will battle to solve a series of practical science tasks and solve some tricky scientific puzzles. Last year, Patterson won the battle to design, build and trial a device to accurately measure 1 minute. We look forward to reporting on the 2025 tasks and winners in an upcoming BartholoNews.