St Patrick's College Science Department

Celebrating students’ successes, sharing updates and behind the scenes of the Science Department @StPatsMaghera 🔬 🧪 🔭

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Year 13 chemists turning up the heat 🔥🧪

Investigating the enthalpy change of combustion by measuring the energy released when alcohols are burned — from methanol to butanol.
Science = flames, energy and serious calculations. 📊✨@StPatsMaghera

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Hands-on learning in action! 💡 Year 12 SA students categorising the live, neutral, and earth wires - their colour, connection, and purpose within a 3 pin plug using a thinking frame 🔌⚡ #PracticalScience #ClassroomCreativity @StPatsMaghera

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10Th Unveiling the spectrum: white light dispersed into a rainbow by a glass prism. 💡🌈 #HandsOnMindsOn 👏 @StPatsMaghera

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Today at our Key Stage 3 lunchtime Science Club pupils discovered how white light is made of many colours! Using a glass prism, pupils observed the light slowing down and bending, with each colour refracting by a slightly different amount 💡 🌈 Super Work 🌟 @StPatsMaghera

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Tea, cake, and smiles all around! ☕🍰 Miss Mulholland’s Single Award Science class enjoying a well-deserved treat after tackling their Chemistry GCSE exam yesterday. Great work everyone! 👏 🌟 @StPatsMaghera

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Osmosis in Action: What’s Your Potato’s Potential?

AS Biology students dug into the science of solute potential—one potato slice at a time! 🥔

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Year 13 Physicists are focusing on lenses. By altering the distance between the object and lens they obtained sharp images on a screen. Students were able to see real, inverted images of different magnications. Measure values of u and v to find the focal length of lens.

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Taste the pH rainbow 🌈 Year 9s go full spectrum!! 9Co developing their understanding through the sweet side of science 😋🤩

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Mini boards, mega minds!🚀🧠
10Sn pictured showing off their learning through a mini-whiteboard-interactive quiz 🤩 Well done to all producing fast answers and fierce thinking ⚡️ @StPatsMaghera

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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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🧪💛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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✨ 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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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