Oxted’s Science Challenge Cup Oxted School's Science event, the Oxted Challenge Cup, kicked off on Wednesday 12 February 2014. A selection of Year 5 students from St Mary’s Junior School, St Catherine’s Primary School, Lingfield Primary School and Holland Junior School visited Oxted School’s Science Department for Round 1 on Wednesday 12 February to compete in a variety of science challenges created by some of Oxted School’s Year 8 students. Throughout the challenge, the primary school students work in teams of 5 and they will compete in 4 rounds overall. Mrs Cilia will visit the primary schools to announce the results after the event. Round Round Round Round
1: Wednesday 12 February 2014 2: Wednesday 5 March 2014 3: Wednesday 7 May 2014 4: Thursday 5 June 2014
Round 1 – Wednesday 12 February Round 1’s challenges included testing different foods for the presence of starch, carbohydrate and protein, and a ‘Taste Test’ challenge where students had to use their taste buds to work out what type of fruit, chocolate or crisps they were sampling. The students then went on to make bouncy custard balls as well as a floating and sinking prediction test with fruit. Round 1 was a great success and Oxted School’s Year 8 students enjoyed working with students from their former primary schools.
Round 2 – Wednesday 5 March During Round 2, the primary school teams worked with some of Oxted School’s Year 8 students on a variety of tasks and experiments.
Firstly, the teams created small rockets using kitchen ingredients and had to aim their rocket at a target to win points. The primary school students also built a device to catapult marshmallows and had to predict which brand of cola would produce the highest stream of bubbles when a packet of mentos were dropped in. Stay tuned to find out about Round 3 and Round 4 of the challenge in our Summer Term newsletter. Mrs J Levin, Communications Coordinator