Success in Crest

Miss Percy has had a busy term in STEM with students from several year groups submitting their British Science Association CREST awards.

CREST is the British Science Association’s flagship programme for young people, providing science enrichment activities to inspire and engage 5 to 19 year olds. It is a nationally recognised scheme for student-led project work in STEM.

Students could choose their own project titles and these ranged from ‘Making your Own Tea Bag’ to ‘Which Biopolymers are the most Ecologically Sound?’ Silver awards were achieved by four students and two students achieved Gold awards.

The Gold awards went to Amber (L5 Aesc) for ‘How Healthy is Your Spread’ and Amy (L6 JEP) for ‘Which Biopolymers are the most Ecologically Sound?’. Gold awards are a huge achievement as they take a minimum of seventy hours of work to complete and must contribute something new to the scientific or