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[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardeners harvested their crop of broad beans, before shelling them and handing them over to the school canteen staff, along with some of their red onions... @DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardeners in action...this week and last, the team were clearing leaves and other debris out of the school pond and surrounding area...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

8D this week...using displacement reactions to work out the order of reactivity for copper, zinc, magnesium and iron...@DrCourtDGS @DGSSciCollege @DartfordGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Gardening Club this week...setting up avocado 🥑 stones to see if we can get them to germinate...@DrCourtDGS @DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Students in 9A completed another GCSE Biology 'Required practical' yesterday... investigating the effect of pH on the enzyme, amylase. @DrCourtDGS @DGSSciCollege @DartfordGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Last week DGS gardeners were planting out onions and garlic and this week they were propagating geraniums and spider plants... @DartfordGS @DrCourtDGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Did anyone spot our home-grown Charlotte potatoes in the school canteen?! @DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Y12 Biology students have been using the molymod kits to create amino acids and then modelling condensation reactions to join them together...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardening club welcomed some new members this week. Onions and tomatoes that had grown over the summer were picked, and the 6th form entrance pot was filled with new plants. A busy first session! @DartfordGS @DrCourtDGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardeners were back in action yesterday, smartening up the entrance to the main reception. @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS @DartfordGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Last DGS gardening club of the year...dried garlic bulbs were taken to the canteen and the boys enjoyed home made syrup, made with lemon verbena leaves, after tying up gladioli under the P block windows...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Rhubarb heading from the DGS garden into the school canteen earlier today...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Home-grown garlic being laid out to dry by some of the DGS gardeners earlier...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

The DGS gardeners were harvesting their cabbages and broad beans this week.@DGSSciCollege @DartfordGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

9B have been modelling radioactive decay using the "half-life dice"...@DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Y12 Biology students measuring joint angles using a goniometer...@DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Y13 Biology students had the Bunsen burners out for calorimetry (finding the energy content of different foods)...@DGSSciCollege

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

Y13s were dissecting kidneys this week, as part of their lessons on osmoregulation...@DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS

[Mrs Craib @CraibMrs]

DGS gardeners were busy brightening up the 6th form entrance this week...@DartfordGS @DGSSciCollege @DrCourtDGS