Science

The Leigh Science Department thanks you!

What a year! The Science department pulled out all the stops on the way to the Summer holidays. This module has seen some wild and intense weather but regardless of the temperature outside; the Bunsen burners kept going, Thank you so much to all our parents and carers for supporting us this year and helping us deliver a great school year.

Our very own Mr Matthews has been experimenting with Copper Sulphate! With a concentrated solution of the stuff, he showed us all how to produce utterly huge Rhomboidal structures, Copper Sulphate being the same molecular shape.

Demonstrating this shows students how ores and other minerals form deep within the earth, where often the first indicator of quality and composition is the shape.

Meanwhile, Mr Fisher has returned to the operating theatre to study hearts. Sadly, this sheepish patient didn't make it. But hopefully the students studying it will be inspired to go on to medical science and maybe the next heart, is one they'll save.

Additionally this year we can welcome a fresh batch of newly hatched shrimp (Neocaridina Davidi) into the department, this voracious little detritivores have already cleaned all the algae off their tank and are happily munching away at literally any plant material we provide.

As you can imagine naming that many shrimplets is next to impossible, so we've resorted to calling them all the same name... Jaques... after Jacques Cousteau, a fellow hardworking water dwelling organism.