Help needed

Hello JRCS Scientists!

After Easter, a group of Y7 students will be taking part in Shell Challenge. We will need the items listed below. Please help us collect them - credits available for all helpers!

- clean yoghurt pots
- clear plastic bags
- plastic bottles (all sizes)
- bottle tops
- corks
- ice lolly sticks
- sprite cans

Please bring your items to SC3.

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

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Easter in London

Hello JRCS Scientists!

If you are spending Easter in London, check out some of these events and places:

Easter at the Science Museum - click here for info

The Royal Institution - click here for info

London Easter Science Holiday Camps - click here for info

Have a restful break!

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DNA model

Hello JRCS Scientists!

A group of Y7 students is currently working on the second DNA model that is going to go into SC2. We need your help with this project! To complete it, we need to collect sprite cans. If you have any at home, please bring them to SC3.

Thank you!

Free forensics course!

Hello JRCS Scientists!

If you are a fan of CSI and forensic science, take an advantage of the free online course from Open University that starts on Monday, 21st March. You will be able to learn about how forensic psychology can help obtain evidence form eye witnesses and learn more how our minds are working. The course will also help you to boost your CV as certificates are given on successful completion.

Follow this link to register for the course - click here.

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Y8 Revision help

Hello JRCS Scientists!

Attention Y8 students! You should be revising for your end of term test at the moment. Here are a few videos that can help you revise biology:

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Women in Science

Hello JRCS Scientists!

To celebrate International Women's Day, we would like to introduce you to some amazing female scientists.

Marie Curie - the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences.

Rosalind Franklin - chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of DNA were largely recognized posthumously.

Roberta Bondar - Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -  biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Image sources: Google images

Research: google, Wikipedia

Hello JRCS Scientists!

Need help studying for a science exam? Need to learn about the periodic table?

Well this is the article for YOU! 

It has been proven that your brain remembers things better when the information is in rhyme or to a rhythm of a song which is why you can still remember that old advert song from your childhood. 

This very useful song will help you learn a lot of facts about the periodic table so you can pass your tests with flying colours.

Learning Online: Searching and Researching

Hello JRCS Scientists!

If you would like to improve your online searching and researching skills, complete this free online course: 

This course will help you to learn the skills needed to use the internet more effectively. You will be able to gain new skills, think critically and learn independently. Click here to register. The course starts on 7th March.

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The science behind cosmetics!

Hello JRCS Scientists!  

Today we will be speaking about the science behind cosmetics! We will see how the cosmetics are made and some of the ingredients which are added to them!

First of all, here is a video to watch to get a better insight on how some lipsticks are made:

As you can see, a lot of science goes in to making just one little tube of lipstick. From the machinery to the waxes, every aspect is unique.

There were also some very unique ingredients that are added into lipstick such as waxes, moisturisers and pigments (which I’m sure you already know from the video but just to re-cap).

Now you know how your lipstick is made!

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