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School events 
2024/25 

PBL Term 1 - 2024/25

For the term one PBL project, students were tasked with finding solutions to deliver two of the SDGs: 

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities 

  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production 
     

  • Grade 7 students focused on energy and green buildings. Some of the projects included solar-powered air-conditioning and water turbines to generate electricity.

  • Grade 8 students worked on solutions for waste management. These solutions included recycling, reusing and composting to generate new uses from trash.

  • Grade 9 students tackled transport. They looked at the current public transport systems and proposed ideas to make them greener and more energy-efficient. They also proposed biofuels and new underground sortation systems for delivering packages to the local community.  

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Science Week - 2024/25

This Science Day we focused on showing interactive projects that sisters, students and teachers could engage with while visiting our stands. 

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Science 

  • Grade 7 students learned which periodic table elements are conductors and which are not. They tested this using various elements and props; sulfur, carbon, aluminium, wood, nails & paperclips. We thought it would be fun to test what unexpected and weird objects can conduct electricity. We discovered that by inserting pieces of zinc and copper into a potato or a tomato and connecting them with wires, enough energy is generated to light up a bulb! 

  • Grade 8 students presented the water, oil, and food colouring experiment. This experiment demonstrates the principle "like dissolves like," which states that solutes tend to dissolve in solvents with similar polarity. Procedure: fill 3/5 of a clear cup with water. Then, add a layer of oil. The oil will not mix with the water because water is polar and oil is nonpolar. The oil will stay above the water because oil has a lower density than water. Next, put some drops of food colouring into the oil. The food colouring will not mix with the oil because food colouring is polar. Instead, it will form tight balls. You can use an implement to push the balls of food colouring into the water. Since food colouring and water are both polar, the food colouring will mix, creating ribbons of colour.

  • In Grade 9, students have been studying about light and refraction. Students used three torches with red, green and blue lights. When different wavelengths of light are mixed together, the light reflected from the surface changes colour. This is amplified when an object is placed in front of the light source, causing different colour shadows.  

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