On Thursday, we went to the Palm House in Sefton Park and spent the day with Liverpool artist Paul Curtis to celebrate Global Scouse Day. We (pupils from Year 10,11,12 and 13) and 40 pupils from Belvedere Prep school worked together with Paul Curtis to create a large mural of Sefton Park Palm house, each painting a leaf or flower.
Paul talked to us about his career and taught us lots of techniques on how to paint and showed us his work which features murals such as the Baltic Wings, Abbey Road, and the Edge Lane City scape. We taught the younger children these same skills. We all really enjoyed it.
Annabelle H, Jamie S and Emily J
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On Wednesday, Y7 Wilton Scholars participated in a Forensic Science workshop to challenge their analytic skills and learn about possible Science based careers in crime prevention and forensics.
The pupils were met as they arrived with crime scene tape. A crime had been committed - someone had broken into the school safe and stolen the cake sale money!
Working collaboratively, clues and evidence were identified, collected, interpreted and analysed. These include fingerprints, impressions, hairs, fibres, 'blood' and DNA.
All of our young scientists were able to successfully analyse the crime scene, eliminate innocent suspects from their enquiries and identify the guilty individual based solely on evidence collected.
The workshop inspired many pupils to find out more about possible careers in STEM fields. The important role of good grades in both maths and science to flourish in these careers was also discussed.
Well done to all our budding scientists.
Mrs Doran
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