👩‍🔬🤩Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Happy #WomenInScienceDay to all our fantastic science teachers, support staff, alumnae, and to our future WHS scientists too! #WomenInScience #GirlsInScience #STEAMWHS #GenerationEquality

So proud to see Dr Clare Roper's letter in The Times and The Sunday Times today, calling for the importance of having more #WomenInScience. #GirlsInSTEM #STEAMWHS #InspireWHS

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Learn more: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

Delighted to welcome our WHS Junior School back on site and into classrooms while Seniors are tested today. We've missed you all! Claire Boyd Fionnuala Kennedy @GDST #BackToSchoolSafely

We want to celebrate #IWD2021 by putting together a thread of #WomenInChemistry and #WomenInSTEM who we admire and find inspirational! #ChemEquality | #chemtwitter | #STEM

🥳Today is #BunsenBurnerDay, marking the birthday of its creator, Robert Bunsen! 👩‍🔬 Check out our #Year7WHS (now #Year8WHS) learning how to light Bunsen Burners safely for the first time. #InspireWHS #WhereGirlsLearnWithoutLimits WHS Chemistry Royal Institution (now on Bluesky)

berylrcohen Mr G Big fan of the Earth over here!! We've developed a science show based around climate change: bit.ly/2Oi4DIv Feel free to share it with your Earth loving network and hopefully it'll encourage others to start acting for change!! Have a great Wednesday =]

Did dinosaurs have feathers? Curiosity and creativity collide as #Year6WHS WHS Junior School research the evolution of birds while developing their water colour skills too! Thank you @LinneanLearning and Natural History Museum for the great ideas and resources 🦖🦅 #sciart Claire Boyd

✨👩‍🔬 In assembly yesterday we celebrated a number of fantastic #STEAMWHS successes from theoretical scientific essays to original creative design development and much more, watch snippets below! Fionnuala Kennedy STEAM_WHS Girls' Schools Association UK Biology Competitions @NestaChallenges Amazon.co.uk @GDST #InspireWHS

Born #OnThisDay is one of the most exceptional chemists in history. #chemtwitter #Science

It has been almost 30 years since astronaut Helen Sharman went to the Mir space station. 🚀 Join Helen, Britain's first astronaut, as we celebrate the 30th anniversary🎉 Live on TikTok 5pm(BST), Monday 17 May ➡️ bit.ly/3uOSNGa

👩‍🔬✨Our Science corridors are now filled with brilliant #WomenInSTEM and their inspiring stories - just in time for everyone’s return to school tomorrow! #STEAMWHS #InspireWHS #EduTwitter Fionnuala Kennedy Alumnae_WHS @GDST STEAM_WHS WHS Biology Dept WHS Chemistry Physics WHS

Gardening update: the rose at the back of Junior school is looking fantastic after Gardening Club took it in hand last winter. Wimbledon High

Not just Crunchies! 🍫 We were making our own coin batteries as part of the Take charge Global battery experiment and learning about battery recycling. Great to see Y6 and Y7 together! WHS Junior School Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Institution #RSCTakeCharge Uni of Birmingham WHS Chemistry Cadbury UK

✨Come along to the #Year8WHS Science Fair from 4.30pm today! The girls will be showcasing their projects on the theme of light and sound 😊 Where? 👉Bio 1 👉KS3 Lab #STEAMWHS #GirlsInSTEM #Science

💡What a superb showcase of science projects at the #Science Fair yesterday - well done #Year8WHS and thanks to our Alumnae_WHS and #Year12WHS students who came along as judges! 👏 #STEAMWHS #ScienceProjects

🧪"We made aspirin from 2-hydroxybenzoic acid. This is one of the longer practicals, and hence we completed the experiment in three different stages..." - Ece A WHS Sixth Form 👩‍💻Read 'A Level Chemists Make Aspirin' - bit.ly/3H5v79r WHS Chemistry Fionnuala Kennedy Girls' Schools Association @GDST

SO excited to welcome Wimbledon High alumna Ashvi Ilott this Friday for our Science Lecture. As Principal Operations Systems Engineer Surrey Satellites Ashvi tests & operates spacecraft in orbit & currently works on the Lunar Pathfinder mission!! #AlumnaeWHS @gdstalumnae #inspireWHS

An extremely lovely write up of a talk I did last week at Wimbledon High ❤️ Thanks Aanya and Sabrina - you were all worth losing my voice over! Particularly loved bringing it back around to what I do now, and how Digital Science is catalysing the next wave of materials science ❤️