The Kimberley School Newsletter July 2014 | Page 14

Science News
The Ogden Trust provides funding
to a local ‘Hub’ of schools, in order to
promote physics education in schools.
We have been lucky enough to be part
of the Nottingham Hub for the past two
years and this has allowed our students
to take part in several events. Here is a
summary of this year’s events.

‘Eastenders’ theme tune. This allowed us to
see how physics can be used in many aspects
of daily life, including music.

The overall physics trip experience was
great. It was a great way of getting women
involved in Physics. Creating music through
physics was really interesting. The overall
performance that we did went really well and it
was great interacting with other students from
NTU Music Challenge
other schools, who shared the same passions
I took a group of Year 10 girls to an event as we did.
at Nottingham Trent University, to complete We had a great time and learnt a lot!
three challenges about the physics of music.
By Daisy Weston, Jenny Banton,
The students I invited were all accomplished
Leah Roulstone, Olivia McGuiggan, Brogan
musicians and scientists and this was an
Butler, Rosie Howe and Samantha Cation
excellent opportunity to see how these two
Young Scientist and Physicist of
areas are related to XX