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Celebrating students’ successes, sharing updates and behind the scenes of the Science Department @StPatsMaghera 🔬 🧪 🔭
Joined October 2022
We finished with a ‘Time Out’ chocolate treat 🍫 — a sweet reminder that it’s okay to take time out to check in with ourselves and look after our mental health. 💛 #ScienceClub #WellbeingThroughScience
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✨ Magnesium ribbon: Burns brightly but quickly – like someone who’s overwhelmed and burns out fast. 🕯️ Candle wax:Burns slow and steadily, like someone who paces themselves. 🔥 Ethanol:Burns invisibly, like hidden emotions that aren’t always seen but still affect us.
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🧪💛Science Meets Wellbeing💛🧪 On World Mental Health Day, our thoughtful Year 9 and 10 girls joined Miss Mulholland for a special Lunchtime Science Club, exploring how different materials burn — and what they can teach us about emotional wellbeing 🔥
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From Tiny to Towering: Investigating the Secrets of Shadow Size 🔦👤 - 10Cs pictured investigating the relationship between distance of an objection from a light source and shadow size 🕵️♂️ @StPatsMaghera #ProjectingPhysics
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AS Biology pupils were tasked to accurately identify structural features and functions of the cell membrane. Excellent progress being made through the effective use of thinking frames and retrieval practice questions 🧠 🌟
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AS Biology pupils were tasked to accurately identify structural features and functions of the cell membrane. Excellent progress being made through the effective use of thinking frames and retrieval practice questions 🧠 🌟
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🌊 🔉 From Coil to Concept: 10 Sn students making waves in Physics!! @StPatsMaghera @katrinacrilly
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The flames don’t lie 🔥Year 12s testing metal ions and lighting up the periodic table—literally 👏 @StPatsMaghera
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9Br put their knowledge to the test today with a mini-whiteboard retrieval quiz on energy forms and energy changes ⚡️🧠 Great engagement and brilliant recall from the class! #ActiveRecall #EnergyChampions @StPatsMaghera
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A2 Biology pupils consolidated their learning today with the use of question loops on the Kidney👏 excellent progress being made #thinkingskillsdevelopment🧠 @StPatsMaghera
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Heat detectives on the case — infrared radiation revealed! Miss McGinnity challenging 9Ar to investigate the unseen world of infrared radiation 🕵️♀️
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Where curiosity meets anatomy 🌟 Pupils in 12DA6 pictured getting to the heart of science—literally!! #CuriousMinds #ExploreToUnderstand
@StPatsMaghera @katrinacrilly
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9Br on a mission to discover the energy content in everyday foods 🔥 From crisps to crackers - it’s all about burning, accurate measuring and learning! #ScienceInAction @StPatsMaghera
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AS Biology pupils putting their organelle recognition skills to the test🌟
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Yr.11 pupils pictured carrying out of their prescribed practicals 🔥. Mr O’Carroll reckons a few wotsits may have been consumed in the making of this practical 🤔
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Speeding through science ⚡️ Year 11 Physics pupils smashing a mini-whiteboard quiz on average speed - retrieval practice in full flow! 🧠💬 #LearningInAction @StPatsMaghera
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Getting to the core of kidney function — no filter needed… Our A2 Biology classes enjoyed an afternoon of kidney dissections✂️🫘
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🔥 Licensed to light! Our budding scientists in 8Tm just earned their Bunsen burner licenses 👏
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