Boiling water at 50*C in a vacuum chamber: off-syllabus, sure, but an engaging demonstration of the effects of air pressure (or lack thereof) nonetheless! #NSWnlRemove #NWSnlScience

This week, Shell have been going on an adventure - bug hunting on Wandsworth Common. Look at these organised boys making some exciting scientific discoveries. #NWSnlScience #NWSCollaboration #NWSFollowYourCuriosity

We have loved discovering what insects are native to Wandsworth Common. Here, two of the boys have just managed to catch a bug (no bugs were harmed in the making of this investigation). #NWSFollowYourCuriosity #NWSnlScience

#NWSnlForm2 #NWSnlScience Fossilised mosasaur tooth and shark tooth from the late Cretaceous period. Also fine specimens of as-yet unfossilised teeth from the early 21st century period!

The drizzly weather couldn’t hamper our aerodynamic engineers testing their prototype plastic parachutes in an air resistance investigation this morning. #NWSnlShell #NWSnlScience

Standing room only at the science week playground investigations.

Dry-ice rockets on the playground! What a lunch time.#NWSnlScience

Staying safe at the dry-ice rocket competition.#NWSnlScience

We had a blast creating these rockets with y8 @BroomwoodUpper students! Houston, we have liftoff! 🚀🚀🚀 #RocketLaunch #ScienceExperiment

#NWSnlScience #NWSnlShell Getting creative drawing organs on Shell E boys’ outlines :)

#NWSnlScience Laser-focused Year 7 sitting an actual CE Chemistry paper for the first time - we have crossed the Rubicon!

#NWSnlScience #NWSnlShell Body-building choristers, in a manner speaking!

1965 commemorative Churchill crown coin - what a find! And some excellent autodidacticism and peer-enthusiasm along the way - hurrah! #NWSnlForm3

Shell E Bug Hunt: twice rained off, but we caught just enough creepy-crawlies to be worth the wait! #NWSnlScience #NWSnlShell

#NWSnlScience #NWSnlForm5 The elastic energy store in the catapult transfers via the mechanical pathway to the kinetic energy store in the flying prune. That and also chance to take down the teacher - three direct hits, each one jolly painful. Prunes hurt!

#NWSnlScience #NWSnlRemove Building a balanced diet food pyramid. One or two efforts to overstate the amount of Dairy Milk and Haribo needed but we got there in the end! Looking forward to seeing what the weekend’s food diaries reveal…

#NWSnlWcience #NWSnlShell Static electricity in action - it’s pretty much magic!

Building toggle switches #NWSnlShell #NWSnlScience

Push switch doormat burglar alarm. We got him - someone call the police! #NWSnlScience #NWSnlShell

#NWSnlScience #NWSnlShell Inspiringly entwined pair work from these two shadow puppet story boarders!