CHCS Science

Cefn Hengoed Community School - Science Department

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2 more days until our transition day and open evening! See you all there 🔬🧪

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We hope you have all had a wonderful summer break! Just in case you didn’t know, here are the return to school dates. 🗓️🧬🧫🧪

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Quadrats; used to sample the abundance and distribution of organisms.

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Refraction “the change in direction of a light wave as it passes from one medium to another” 🌈💡

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Flame tests with year 9 last week! Some excellent examples of good practice. Red = lithium, yellow = sodium 🔥🔥🔥

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Chemistry and physics booster sessions for Year 11 sets 1 and 2 learners who are resitting from Year 10:

GCSE chemistry booster session:
Thursday 12th June – period 2 and period 3  

GCSE physics booster session
Friday 13th June – period 1 and period 2

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Biology booster sessions for Year 11 sets 1 and 2 learners who are resitting from Year 10:

- Tuesday 3rd June - 09:55-10:55 (period 2)
- Wednesday 4th June - 11:15 - 12:15 (period 3)

Sessions will be in B10 with Mrs. King

Chemistry and physics sessions to follow

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Year 11 Science NEA 2024-25

11 set 1 and 2 - Tues 21st Jan - period 3 and period 4
11 set 1 and 2 - Tues 4th Feb - period 3 and period 4

No NEA for 11 sets 3-K

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Y10 Science NEA 2024-25

· 10 set 5 – Tues 14th Jan – period 1 and period 2
· 10 set 4 – Wed 15th Jan – period 1 and 2
· 10 set 3 – Wed 15th Jan – period 3 and 4
· 10S – Mon 20th Jan – period 1 and 2
· 10H – Mon 20th Jan – period 4 and 5
· 10K – Wed 22nd Jan – period 2 and 4

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Year 11 set 1 and 2

Physics booster session 08:00-08:55

Friday 24th May

Exam is at 09:00

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GCSE Science revision

Tomorrow (April 3rd) - 10:30 til 12:30

Year 11 - set 1 and 2

Year 10 - all sets

Look forward to seeing you!

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Actual BTEC Science exam - Wednesday 31st January 09:00

Breakfast revision from 08:00 on the morning of exam

After-school revision next Tuesday from 15:00

You must pass the exam to gain the qualification

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Buddy challenged all of Newton's laws

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A new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack that opened up in Ethiopia in 2005. The crack, which has been expanding ever since, is a result of three tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

It’s thought that Africa’s new ocean will take at least 5 million to 10 million years to form, but the Afar region’s fortuitous location at the boundaries of the Nubian, Somali and Arabian plates makes it a unique laboratory to study elaborate tectonic processes.

There are still some big unknowns, including what is causing the continent to rift apart. Some think that a massive plume of superheated rocks rising from the mantle beneath East Africa could be driving the region’s continental rift.

Each plate boundary in the Afar region is spreading at different speeds, but the combined forces of these separating plates is creating what’s known as a mid-ocean ridge system, where eventually a new ocean will form.

The three plates are separating at different speeds. The Arabian plate is moving away from Africa at a rate of about 1 inch per year, while the two African plates are separating even slower, between half an inch to 0.2 inches per year.

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In Bill Gates’ office, there’s a wall with the periodic table complete with actual samples of each item. 🤯

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This is how it would look Saturn if it was at the same distance as the moon.

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Here is the most recent view of the surface of MARS captured by NASA's perseverance rover.

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GCSE Science revision tomorrow - 10:00 til 12:00

Year 11 set 1 and 2
Year 10 sets 3, 4, 5, S, H and K

We look forward to seeing you!

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PolyGlu is a coagulant made from fermented soybeans to purify water. It's safe and eco-friendly and just a gram can treat up to 5 liters of polluted water

[source, video: https://t.co/rie87CiOh8]

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Spectacular timelapse of the Milky Way and a phenomenon known as airglow seen from the International Space Station.

4K version on Youtube: https://t.co/MR5DMTB7LZ