Ampleforth College Sciences

The official Twitter account for Sciences at Ampleforth College, a leading Catholic co-educational boarding school situated in North Yorkshire.

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

A great set of performances from our science students - well done all! Thanks to @RoyalSocBio for this challenging competition!

[Ampleforth College @AmpleforthColl]

Even more great news from the Science Department with British Biology Olympiad success! Congratulations to Sophie for her gold award, Grace and Akshay for silver and Elspeth and Ruby for highly commended– well done to you all! #compassforlife

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Brilliant performances from our top science students. Thanks to @RoySocChem for this challenging competition! @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College @AmpleforthColl]

Chemistry Olympiad Success! Congratulations to Akshay for his gold award, Grace, Kimi and Josefine for silver and Alex, Lysander, Fritz and Patrick for bronze – terrific results! #compassforlife

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Our lower sixth Biologists enjoyed a day of seminars from Dr Guy Sutton of Medical Biology Interactive this week. In the morning we looked into Forensic science and in the afternoon, looked at the molecular bases of Health and Disease. Challenging and inspiring. @AmpleforthColl

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Huge thanks from @AmpleforthColl to the staff and undergraduates of The School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at York University who gave up their time to give our students such a fantastic experience!

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Our Sixth form Physicists enjoyed a day at @YorkUniversity yesterday. Our hosts in the School of Physics treated us to a fascinating variety of activities ranging from investigating laser diffraction to a visit to the Astrocampus. @AmpleforthColl #STEM

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Happy International Women's Day!

We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

Who are the women who inspire you the most?

#IWD2023

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Science in the real world.....and particularly relevant to our A level Chemists #WorldCancerDay2023 @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Some of our Year 10 Scientists had a great day out in Sheffield yesterday with @gcsesciencelive - they listened to a fantastic variety of inspirational #STEM speakers from all areas of Science including Robert Winston, Simon Singh and Hannah Critchlow @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Investigating the Physics of light with our year 10 scientists today - refraction experiments. @AmpleforthColl #STEM @PhysicsNews Practical work is a core element of effective science teaching.

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Yesterday we welcomed Dr Guy Sutton (Medical Biology Interactive) Our Upper Sixth Form Biologists were treated to a masterclass in Neuroscience covering all bases from comparative anatomy of mammalian brains to advances in neuroscience using organoids. @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

One for our Sixth Form Chemists - always get your arrows right! @AmpleforthColl #STEM

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Our Lower Sixth form Chemists enjoying practical work today……organic synthesis reactions @RoySocChem @AmpleforthColl Effective A level Science always involves practical work.

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Our Year 7 Science students were learning about great female scientists this week. #WomenInSTEM…Plenty to choose from including Rosalind Franklin, Rachel Carson, Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie and Dorothy Hodgkin @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Our future medics and vets had another practice session at Multiple Mini Interviews yesterday…..one of the stations involved role play….dealing with a difficult colleague! @AmpleforthColl @Amp_CollStB

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Amazing work as ever @dsgoodsell - One for our Sixth form biologists to investigate further to aid their understanding - HIV lifecycle, Cellular immunity, Cell structure…..David’s work hangs in our Biology labs and is regularly referred to! @AmpCollSTEM @AmpleforthColl

[David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 @dsgoodsell]

"HIV-Infected Cell" shows a T-cell with integrated HIV-1 DNA (thin white lines at upper right) and viruses assembling and budding at the cell surface. Full-size files, hand drawn at a scale of 1 nm/pixel, are free for use at: https://t.co/MA7Asr2SDy and https://t.co/X3Oia9l3yl.

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Yesterday our Year 13 Medicine applicants ran through a practice MMI interview session - a really challenging process involving 7 mini interviews ranging from a role play exercise to medical ethics. Well done to all! @AmpleforthColl

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Our IGCSE Chemists enjoying practical work this week #STEM @AmpleforthColl

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Our Year 10 Physicists investigated static electricity today! @AmpleforthColl #womeninSTEM

[Ampleforth College Sciences @AmpCollScience]

Great to welcome @medicprojects to @AmpCollScience department today. Amy Hooper and Dr Alice Deviney gave a superb presentation to our Year 11 and 12 aspiring medics. Some great questions from the students meant an hour talk become nearly two! @AmpleforthColl