As part of British Science Week, students took part in a range of Science related extracurricular trips.

55 year 9 students visited Manchester, first to the Museum of Illusions for lots of mind bending optical illusions including a vortex tunnel which really made your head spin! They then went to Manchester Museum to explore their collection of archaeological treasures, weird and wonderful animals from around the world, Chinese historical artefacts and dinosaur fossils. They even got to meet Stan the T rex!

Our British Science Week trip for Year 10 was to Chester Zoo. The students braved the bat cave, although there were some shrieks of fright when the bats flew close by! They got up close to three very impressive big cats - lions, tigers and jaguars. There were lots of cheeky monkeys, orangutangs and apes. The zoo has animals and birds from all over the world from penguins to crocodiles, elephants to flamingos.