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St Gabriel’s College hosted the annual BLC primary schools Science Fair 2025 in March with Yr 5 pupil teams from 6 BLC primary schools participating in this exciting event as culmination of a programme of weekly science activity. Primary pupils worked with the Science Department at St Gabriel’s developing and investigating an area of research, recording their observations and presenting their findings to a judging panel at the Science Fair event. Congratulations to the team from Stockwell Primary awarded 1st place for their presentation investigating ‘Acid or Alkaline’

Throughout March, teams of Yr 5 pupils have been working with the Science Department and Mr Gulled at St Gabriel’s College to investigate an area of science. Pupils were assisted on a journey of discovery, to consider an investigation question such as: Does temperature affect the rate of dissolving? Does the volume of alcohol effect the temperature of the heat energy produced? Does flavour effect the energy of crisps? Over a number of weeks, pupils experimented, recording their results and put together a presentation to explain their findings. An exciting Science Fair event at the end of spring term brought all the science teams together to present their work to a panel of judges including special guest, Aeronautical Engineer Alexander Popov. The judges were very impressed with all the presentations – pupils demonstrated excellent scientific knowledge and understanding and some terrific presentation skills. Congratulations to Hill Mead Primary school who took the first place award for their demonstration and massive well done to all the teams for some fantastic research and knowledge sharing.

In March, colleagues took part in some fantastic training led by the Education team at the National Gallery. The session involved EYFS staff from Brixton Learning Collaborative, Windmill Cluster and Oval Learning and took place in the gallery spaces with colleagues exploring ways to use pictures to support storytelling and oracy development. Teacher comments:

‘Very inspiring!’
‘I honestly loved this CPD session and am excited to implement some of the tips and tricks for story telling’
‘I found it incredibly useful and inspiring and lovely to have something completely focussed on EYFS’

At the start of the year BLC science leads came together for a day of training funded and led by the Ogden Trust as part of an ongoing partnership with BLC schools to support the teaching and learning of physics. The focus of the day was Electricity and colleagues learnt some useful new strategies and tips to inspire their pupils to take physics further. They were all provided with a kit of resources for some exciting physics experimentation back in the classroom

Here’s our list of the some of the free or low cost activities on this weekend in London for families. Low Cost no cost flyer No 90 June 2014

Click on the link to access our Low Cost No Cost flyer of activities that families can do over half term, kindly produced by our colleagues in the Windmill cluster of schools in Brixton. Low Cost no cost flyer No 87 May 2014

May 2014 community edition final

here’s a taste of the Eliot Now primary poetry project