Science Week: St Patrick's College Places 10th Globally
This year Science Week, which ran from Monday 16 – Friday 20 August had to be delivered to the girls remotely. The Science staff used the week as an opportunity for the girls in Year 7 – 10 to have a reset and have a say in the direction they took their Science learning. It was a week of “Choose your Own Adventure” with a number of different opportunities on offer.
Girls had the opportunity to complete Escape Rooms and Kahoot quizzes based around this year’s theme: Food: Different by Design. They listened to podcasts and carried out practical activities made available through the Library’s homepage.
Many girls competed in the Education Perfect Science Championships. Girls could compete by answering questions or playing games that covered Science content being covered in lessons, or by choosing to learn about topics that simply interested them. St. Patrick’s did incredibly well coming 10th globally, 7th in Australia and 4th in NSW.
We had two girls, Charlotte (Year 8) and Sarah (Year 9) who placed in the top 100. Both girls earnt Elite awards.
Below are some excerpts taken from reflections written by some of our students:
The Education Perfect Championship was a fun experience. The way that the competition was designed was very smart, being able to compete and earn awards to learn was very encouraging. – Lyna (Year 10)
During Science Week, I spent my class time revising the work that I've learnt and of course participating in the Education Perfect Competition. It was very challenging and required me to put my mind to work, but it was also really enjoyable learning all different things about different topics within science. Being able to have to put in the effort and then being rewarded was very encouraging. It was really fun and a great learning experience. – Auriel (Year 10)
Science Week was a jam-packed week full of Sciencey activities. From background competitions to Kahoots about the weeks topic, Food: Different by design.
The Education Perfect Science Championships were quite a blast. From biology to chemistry, the plethora of activities was endless. From the revision of past topics to the expansion of interests, the competition between everyone was really tense. – Charlotte (Year 8)
“During Science Week, my Year 10 class and I dressed up, albeit a little reluctantly, and participated in some fun activities during class but my favourite activity of the week had to be the Education Perfect Competition. I am usually the most interested in chemistry but once I completed all of the chemistry questions, I found myself completing the biology questions. I learned a lot from those questions and discovered some really interesting facts to keep me entertained. Those punnet squares really did me a solid!” – Charley (Year 10)
For Science Week this year, my class got to do an escape room on food, as this year's topic was Food: different by design. This was fun as we got to do something different from what our normal lessons would be. Doing the education perfect science championships was interesting as I got to learn new things that I may not have covered in class. – Caitlin (Year 9)
Kate Lefever - Science Coordinator
