SJBC Science dept

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More Year 10 pupils carrying out food tests 🧪

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Year 10 pupils carrying out food tests in Science class this week

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Miss Hughes’ Year 8 students presented their projects on a range of different animals as they study the topic of animals and their habitats. Well done to all students for their interesting facts and presentations 👏🏻👏🏻

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Year 11 Double Award Science Trip to Lough Neagh Discovery Centre. Our students learned some valuable sampling skills and were lucky enough to have great weather 🧬 🦔 💧 🌎

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Miss Molloy and Mr Dineen held a STEM Careers Information morning.
We had an excellent morning with lots of useful information learned through a variety of fun activities.
Thank you to everyone who was involved and who gave up their time to teach our pupils about careers in STEM

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In Science Club today we made fake snow & built our own snowmen! ⛄️

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Year 11 and 12 Double Award Science students visited Queens University, Belfast for a “Chemistry at Work” exhibition. The students heard speakers & visited stations set up by various companies involved in the chemistry sector.
A big thank you to QUB for hosting us! 🧪

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Mrs McCanns class making models to show how waves travel 🌊

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Year 12 pupils carrying out refraction of light experiments

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Year 8 pupils carrying out flame tests experiments

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Our new Year 8 pupils learning how to light the Bunsen burner

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Members of our Eco Club attended the Eco Schools Green Flag Awards today where we received our 5th green flag. We are delighted to have also been awarded Ambassador Eco School 2022-2025 and Biodiversity Champions 2021-2022! ♻️ @Eco_SchoolsNI

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Trip to Belfast zoo

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Year 8 trip to Belfast Zoo for the topic of Habitats. The sun stayed out and pupils had a great day 🐍🦭🦒🦓🐵☀️ @BelfastZoo thanks for an amazing day out!

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Eco Club getting planting tips from the Mens Shed. Well done everyone 👏🏻🪴

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Year 11 Science students enjoyed today’s lesson focusing on separation techniques for their GCSE. Well done to everyone involved 🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Year 11 pupils calculating their personal power 💪🏼

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Year 10 pupils carrying out experiments on measuring forces

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Wear Green Be Green♻️♻️
P7 pupils from St John the Baptist Primary School enjoyed a fun filled Eco day today. They were litter picking, planting flowers and replenishing our polytunnel with plants and vegetables.

Well done to everyone involved 🎉🎉