Homerton hosts 47 students for residential Summer Schools
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Homerton College hosted 47 students from 23 different schools across the country for its 3-day summer school in July 2015.
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Most of the Year 12 students came from Homerton’s link areas of Doncaster, Rotherham, and the London Boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, and Hounslow. The summer school featured three strands: the Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and the Arts and Humanities. The residential kicked off with an introduction to the courses on offer in Cambridge given by Admissions Tutors Steve Watts and Paul Elliott. Steve commented: “The summer school students had a chance to experience student life. They stayed in College for two nights, ate in the Hall and completed a taxing academic programme. They were all high achieving school students who were thinking about applying to top universities and we wanted to help them see how they would enjoy studying at the top one.”
Year 12 students outside the Great Hall.
Students on the Physical Sciences strand were able to attend sessions on Physics, Earth Sciences, Maths, Engineering and Chemistry, covering topics as diverse as chirality, bio-informatics, and how there might be more than one ‘infinity’. Isobel Wilson, of Coombe Girls’ School, said she particularly enjoyed the maths sessions because “the lecturers were really passionate and it was very engaging!” The Biological Science strand involved interactive sessions on Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Pathology and, for the first time, Hospital Medicine, ahead of Homerton’s first intake of Medicine students in October 2016. The students also undertook the “Quest for the Curator’s Code”, a science-based mystery devised with the University’s Whipple Museum of the History of Science. This involved students opening a series of locked safes in the Museum by finding hidden messages, listening to portraits talk, and solving puzzles involving probability and data analysis. Paul Elliott, Science Admissions Tutor, said: “These events are a vital part of Cambridge’s
