Year 9 Chemistry Interform Challenge

Posted on 6th March 20186th March 2018 by mjr3138uk

Year 9 Chemistry Interform Challenge - 'The Chemical Clock'

Year 9 students have excelled in the ‘Chemical Clock’ inter-form competition. Two students from each tutor group were set the challenge of devising a mixture of solutions that would change colour after exactly 1 minute.

Following 20 minutes of experimentation, the students had to demonstrate their reaction in front of Dr Hall and Mr Skelly and the team closest to 1 minute were declared the winners.

The results were incredibly close, with 3rd and 4th place separated by just one hundredth of a second. However, the 9S team of Sam Jordan and Jason Christoforou were the clear winners with a time of 59.63s – less than half a second away from the target time. Congratulations to all the students who took part.

Rhys Progresses in Photography Competition

Posted on 6th March 20186th March 2018 by mjr3138uk

Rhys Progresses in the Rotary Young Photographer Competition

Rhys Hurd in Year 12 has won the local heat of the ‘Rotary Young Photographer’ competition. He will now progress to the District Competiton and depending on the result the National Final.

Rhys submitted three pictures in response to the task of producing a portfolio of three photographs based upon the theme, ‘A Different Perspective’. The first, a spiral staircase, was taken at South Devon College as part of his A-Level Photography Architecture project. The second was the old church roof at Torre Abbey, and the third was taken at Sagrada Familia in Spain when on the recent school music tour in July 2017.

The winners of each age group in the District Young Photographer competition will be invited to attend a photographic workshop with Ross Hoddinott in and around his studios at Kilkhampton on Friday 16th March 2018 from 12:00 noon to dusk.

Rhys is also running a photography club on Tuesday lunchtimes for any students in Year 9-11, in C3. Everyone is welcome.

Cyber Discovery

Posted on 6th March 20186th March 2018 by mjr3138uk

Cyber Discovery

Cyber Discovery, HM Government’s Cyber Schools Programme, is an extracurricular learning programme for students in years 10-13 across England. Its goal is to ensure that many more people enter the cyber security profession in the coming years.

30 students from CFGS enrolled on the first Assess stage of Cyber Discovery in December 2017. Student comments:

“It is really good – it helps our minds to work in a problem-solving way”

“An amazing opportunity; a fun way to learn and it’s good to compete against other students.”

Based on their score in the Assess Stage, Cyber Discovery has now invited 17 of these students to continue to the Game stage. The Game stage features over 120 cyber security challenges for the students to tackle. Congratulations to these 17 students and Good Luck with the Games Challenges!

Top performing students will be invited to the third stage, CyberStart Essentials, when it opens in March 2018. The fourth and final stage of Cyber Discovery is CyberStart Elite. A select number of the very best students from across the country will be hand-picked to participate in three days of face-to-face learning, before competing in a live Capture The Flag competition.

Miss F Crick, February 2018