Monthly Archives: March 2015

Science

British Science Week

British Science Week 2015 takes place 13 – 22 March.

Science on the Spot

As part of British Science Week, there will be a Science on the Spot session in the Library on Wednesday 18th March from 12.45pm – 1.35pm. Pupils and staff are invited to come along and try their hand at some quick, but impressive Science tricks.

 

Competition in School

To celebrate British Science week the Science faculty are running a competition. Pupils are asked to identify general lab equipment from anagrams and close up pictures. A winner will be selected from the correct entries and awarded a mystery prize! Each entry gains a participation house point.

Copies of the competition have been given to each tutor teacher. Additional copies are available from the library. Entries should be handed in to the library by the end of Friday 20th March. A winner will be announced on Monday 23rd March.

 

Solar Eclipse

On Friday the 20th March there is a Solar Eclipse, Aberdeen has been voted one of the best places to see it from with up to 98% of the sun being covered. The eclipse will begin just after 8.30am with the peak occurring around 9.40am and the eclipse finishing around 10.45am. For safe ways to view the solar eclipse please see the following website  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131102-solar-eclipse-safe-viewing-science-sun-space/

The eclipse will also be lived streamed via the following http://live.slooh.com/

 

Events around AberdeenThere are a number of events taking place across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engage/content-images/BritishScienceWeek2015webs.pdf

 

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Scottish Author Allan Burnett talk on “Invented in Scotland”

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S1 pupils on Friday were treated to an informative presentation by Scottish author Allan Burnett.

 
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Allan gave an enthusiastic presentation on “Invented in Scotland” with numerous links to Scottish Scientists.  He did a fantastic job of combining the history and the connection with where we are now, e.g James Watt, steam and turbines and Napier, logarithms and computing.  He had lots of new facts too including informing us that the humble digestive is a Scottish invention!

Allan’s visit coincided with a week of activities for S1 pupils as part of a wider cross curricular project on Great Scottish Scientists.

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Visit by our Patrons of Reading Metaphrog

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This week we have been delighted to again welcome our Patrons of Reading Metaphrog back to Northfield Academy to work with S1 pupils in a series of graphic novel workshops.

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Pupils enjoyed working with metaphrog over several periods and were encouraged in their work to create their own comic strip of a famous Scottish scientist.

These workshops are part of a wider cross curricular school project to research, plan and draw a short comic strip about a famous Scottish Scientist. These will be showcased  soon on the TV screens in school. Several comics will be photographed frame by frame and music composed to create short films.

As part of the project a number of S1 classes will also attend an author talk by Allan Burnett – who has recently written “Invented in Scotland”.

Metaphrog also worked with Primary 7 pupils from Quarryhill Primary on an introductory workshop on graphic novels.