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An amazing achievement!

What an interesting thing to do over half term!

A winner for best wind turbine in Fourths whilst studying wind power!

Well done to Shuili, JB, Kiarn and Harrison for merits in the Physics Challenge. Now onto the next round; the Olympiad round 1!

Well done to the IVJ Physicists who presented on renewable energy last week to a Nepalese school as part of the ‘connecting classrooms’ initiative.

Tonight will be the best night to see the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction as we have a clear night in Solihull. 30 min after sunset according to Mr Farrington. Get your telescopes and binoculars out!

Congratulations to our UVIth for their achievements in the Physics Olympiad. Commendation for Harrison, Bronze for JB and Silvers for Shuili and Kiarn. These questions are seriously hard; see here: bpho.org.uk

Sun spots taken in Solihull School yesterday. NOTE: this was taken with a special filter. NEVER look at the Sun without one.

noinsectinction-buglife.org/buglife/website do sign up to this important campaign; Solihull school scientists!

Note; you get free garden seeds if you do!

Watching Jupiter and it’s moons with the Fourths on the Sifa sleepout!

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers

Upper Sixth Physicists have arrived in Geneva!

At the UN with the Physicists this morning.

The cyclosynchrotron at CERN which we visited yesterday.

At CERN!

Fondue in Geneva.