Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is most likely one of the most famous elements of Quantum Physics there is. While quite a simple idea compared with many other elements of Quantum Mechanics it has many other far more complicated applications which could perhaps serve as the topic for a future blog. The uncertainty principle states that […]
Month: October 2017
Year 7, Ally Jordan is the second blogger on the (now famous) Kingswood Residential!
On the 16th of October 2017, the Y7 group set off for Kingswood Activity Centre near Doncaster. The journey lasted around 1 hour and a half and when we arrived we got off the bus, grabbed our suitcases and luggage and dropped them off in a nearby classroom. Next, we met Mihia, our activity leader, […]
Year 7, Jake Doney, blogs new experiences + new friendships on the Kingswood Residential
For our residential, we went to Kingswood Outward Bounds Centre. We participated in lots of fun activities and had a great time. At Kingswood I made lots of new friends because we were all mixed up in different groups and dorms which allowed me to meet lots of different people I don’t usually talk to. […]
Year 7 Tabitha Findlay blogs a few facts about Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Here are a few facts for the blog. There is a lot of armour; it must have been very heavy going into battle with it on! There were lots of sprinkler bottles & some beautiful old china plates. The artists include: William Ewing (sculptor), famous Augustus John (painter), Eugène Delacroix (painter), Alexander Nasmyth (painter) and […]
Pro Life vs Pro Choice. Daisy blogs the first part of this debate! Part 2 coming soon.
Part one of the debate. Thank you for coming to this evening’s debate. Today Robbie and I will be arguing in support of the pro-life campaign, which essentially states that abortion is wrong in all circumstances, except those in which the foetus is already mortally injured or the life of the mother is in immediate […]
German Exchange student Lena Schemmann visited England and wrote (in English) about her home city, Bonn.
Visit Bonn! Bonn is a very beautiful, pretty City by the river Rhine. It is near the big city Cologne but Bonn is smaller, more quiet and has a nice atmosphere. In summer you can relax, enjoy the sun and have a picknick or something like that with your friends, because the landscape is very […]
German Exchange visitor Hannah Sauerborn writes about the differences she observed between German and English schools.
Deutsche Schulen vs. Englische Schulen Zwei verschiedene Welten. Als ich am Mittwoch das Schulgelände betreten habe, habe ich mich gefühlt, als wäre ich in einer anderen Welt. Viele enge und verzweigte Flure, in denen Mädchen in ihren Schuluniformen ihren richtigen Raum suchen. Lange Röcke, eine schicke Bluse, darüber ein Blazer und schicke schwarze Schuhe […]
OS George (2017) blogs about his 1st year studying Politics and International Studies at University of Warwick
Hello! My name is George Brown and I currently study Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. I studied at Stamford School from 2010 to 2017 and have gone straight to university from school, starting my degree only a few weeks ago. Mr. Tuck has asked me to write this article to highlight […]
Sam Hilder begins a series of blogs chronicling his studio tech group’s reproduction of Motorhead’s ‘A Line in the Sand’
Studio Technology: A Line in the Sand by Motörhead Recently in Studio Tech we began the production of Motörhead’s A Line in the Sand. The first week of production was the plan. Here we listed the number and type of instruments required and listened carefully to the smallest detail on the original track so we […]
Charles Morrison (Y9) reviews Andrew Bovell’s play ‘Things I Know To Be True’
Things I Know To Be True – Theatre Review On the 10th of October Drama scholars from SES Y9-Y13 took a trip to the Curve Theatre in Leicester to see Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell. The play is mainly focused on a family consisting of a wife, husband and four children […]