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  • Thursday 11th December 2008

    Newcastle girls get chemistry lesson down Pennine Mine

    Twenty three budding chemists from Sacred Heart High School in Newcastle swapped a lovely warm lab for a Chemistry lesson deep under the North Pennines at Killhope Leading Mining centre.

    The intrepid 14 and 15 year olds were the first group to take part in a purposely designed science lesson on the GCSE Science topic ‘extracting metals’ at the centre.

    Designed by their science teacher Mick Barr the pupils found out how metal veins were formed, and, with a few chemical equations...

  • Tuesday 2nd December 2008

    Newcastle Science City announces school photo winners

    Over the last month young people from all over Tyne and Wear have been taking an extra special interest in their environment as part of the Newcastle Science City schools ‘Science and Nature’ photo competition.

    The competition winners were announced and presented with their prizes at the Scientia 08 conference at St James Park, in front of all Newcastle’s leading scientists.

    There were two main winners, one in the younger primary age group and one in the older section. The...