Alford Academy

This week our pupils and parents continue to enjoy and engage with our British Science Week projects, making biomes in a bottle, crystals and holograms. Please visit the following Twitter posts to see just some of the excellent examples that have been produced

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Our pupils and parents continue to enjoy and engage with our BSW projects making biomes in a bottle, crystals and holograms @ScienceWeekUK pic.twitter.com/oxfIkqp8zh

— Alford Academy Science Faculty (@AlfordScience) March 4, 2021

Loving the Holograms @AlfordScience @ScienceWeekUK pic.twitter.com/KEEX3afRF3

— Alford Academy Science Faculty (@AlfordScience) March 5, 2021

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This week we have had another 2 examples of Excellent Home learning posted on the Alford Science Twitter feed.

Use the following link to find out more about how S1 pupils are performing tasks linked to British Science Week. This starts an interdisciplinary project also involving the Faculties of Business Education and Computing, Humanities, Mathematics and Enterprise and Creativity.

And we are off… Started our cross curricular project for British Science Week with our S1 pupils… Great recognition of the skills needed for STEM.
#engagement#choice @ScienceWeekUK pic.twitter.com/pgpp5Ng0zl

— Alford Academy Science Faculty (@AlfordScience) February 26, 2021

The second link below highlights the work of a S6 pupil who presented their research project to S3 and S6 pupils. The research and presentation form part of their Scottish Baccalaureate qualification.

Well done to our S6 baccalaureate student who presented her research project to her peers this week. And a huge thank you to our students for their feedback, support and encouragement of their colleague. #COREVALUES HHARK pic.twitter.com/peSmF8jtib

— Alford Academy Science Faculty (@AlfordScience) February 26, 2021

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The Science Faculty thought we would share some excellent home learning that has been produced by many pupils during February 2021. We would like to thank everyone for their continued hard work and some amazing learning. Alford Team Science.

The Science Faculty is striving to keep pupil engagement as high as possible during home learning. To achieve this we are using several platforms alongside Google Classroom, to inform pupils of what they are required to learn and providing a variety of activities to achieve this.  We are providing feedback on pupil work, celebrating when successful home learning has happened but also giving any ‘next steps’ required to improve work further. We have also been gathering feedback from pupils and adjusting home learning based on their responses. We have put some examples of this in the video below.

We acknowledge the following resources and platforms uses within the Science Faculty

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Today we will share examples of the excellent home learning from some of our new S6 pupils studying Advanced Higher Biology.

Excellent summary notes and mind maps are helping to consolidate the understanding of Laboratory Techniques and the Cellular Production of Proteins.

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Last week the new S2 year group were learning about cells. One of the tasks was to make a model of a cell. Here is a selection of some of the excellent home learning, producing cell models and cell cakes. Well done all of S2.