Year 11 History and Applied Science pupils took part in a joint event this morning. Scientists gave talks on how they monitor in their jobs using scientific techniques.This approach will be used more and more in the Science College to bring the science alive through other subjects.History pupils will be using these events when they study the history of medicine and how technology is used in modern

Year 7 Most Able and Talented science pupils are ready to launch their rockets. All term they have been working on generating oxygen and hydrogen. After a few (loud and scary) hiccups we have discovered the exact ratio needed to react oxygen and hydrogen to send a plastic bottle flying ! Zoe, Clare, Sarah, Ruthanna, Thomas and Michael will be lighting the fuse on Tuesday dinnertime. Blast off is at

The construction of the Virtual Learning Environment and the Construction Workshop is being used as a case study by the Year 11and 10 Applied GCSE Construction and the Built Environment. Pupils are being taught Mechanical and Electrical services on site. They are working with the site manager looking at the problems which occur during builds and how to solve them.

Year 11 Most Able and talented Chemistry pupils will be taking part in the annual event run by the North East Process Industry Cluster. Our year 11's have secured a place in this event which is normally reserved for Year 12 and 13's.Industrialists will present the pupils with problems they face and cannot solve at the moment. Pupils will analyse existing data and devise a strategy to solve their problem.

Fri 18th January. 4 Year 8 pupils from Teedsale school will be working with Noel Jackson from the Life centre, Newcastle and Steve Humble regional coordinator for the Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. Over the course of the day they will be working on Smart Maths activities and designing an outdoor maths trail for the Centre for Life. Daniel, Jack, Alice and Ann analysed the flight

Having been rained off for three weeks, the Year 7 Rocket Club finally had their blast off. The hydrogen-oxygen rockets were exploded Tuesday 15th January at 1pm. Amazingly there was a dead heat with two rockets travelling 5.1 metres each. The final blast off will take place on Tuesday 22th January.

Teesdale primary schools and Teesdale School have published their science plan. This year's projects will focus on sustainabilty and Most Able and Talented pupils. There will be a mixture of trips, experiments at Teesdale Science College and talks from practising scientists. The programme is laid out below. THEME PROJECT ORGANISATION ACTIVITY Sustainability

On Monday 28th January, Primary pupils from Woodland and Forest School are trialling the events which will form the basis for the cluster's sustainability project.They will be trying out surveying with a SOKKIA Theodolite, comparing petrol, diesel and biodiesel, videoconferencing with a County Durham scientist and calculating Carbon Footprints on Action for CO2 website. The project will then take place

Teesdale Conservation Volunteers will be installing a Rocket In-Vessel Composting System.This makes it possible to compost kitchen waste.Teesdale school will be at the forefront of this trial. It will involve sixth form pupils driving the milk float to collect the waste. KeyStage Three and Four pupils will coordinate the collection of the bins and education of the the rest of the school about how and

Teesdale School, UTASS and the Young Farmers Association are working on a project together as part of the Year of Food and Farming. We are developing further the outstanding work of Nick Copson, the school chef. Nick has developed a menu sourced almost entirely locally. Our project, The Totally Teesdale Menu will develop this into curriculum projects to extend pupil's knowledge of Food to Fork issues.Upper