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Lordswood Boys Year 13 AQA ISA - Tuesday 12th March 2013

5 A2 students from Lordswood Boys and Hillcrest came to the Five Ways Physics Factory to complete their AQA ISA. Well done for keeping focused and working hard!

Ogden Trust/Physics Factory Year 9 G&T Session - Thursday 7th March 2013

King Edward VI Five Ways, Lordswood Girls, Edgbaston High and Bordesley Green Girls each brought a group of  their Year 9 G&T students for a Ogden Trust School Partnership masterclass at the Physics Factory. They experienced forces, using hammers, magnets, a toy helicopter, helium balloons, and the hoverboard and also learnt about heat transfer using ice, copper 'matches', food dye in gas jars, ice-melting and seeing black surface experiments and lots more.

Al-Hijrah School - Feb 13

'This week and last week, Al-Hijrah School year 11 girls and boys respectively visited the Physics Factory for a day's master class on Radioactivity. As well as demonstrating the properties of nuclear radiation, the day included modelling Beqerel's discovery, demonstrating random processes using pop corn and 'skittles', modelling ionisation and penetration as radiation travels through matter, modelling half-lives using dice and much more. The final session of the day was dedicated to 'Fun with Physics', involving the hoverboard, invisible test tubes, mixing light, separating white light into its colours and viewing the emission spectra of Hydrogen. One student remarked at the end that they couldn't believe how fast the day had gone and how much they'd learnt.'

Shenley Academy Yr12 Level 3 BTEC group - Friday 25th January 2013

Shenley Academy sent their Year 12 Level 3 BTEC group to the Physics Factory today for the first time. The group developed their understanding of energy and successfully completed a number of investigations to do with energy transfer and efficiency. The group were a pleasure to work with and a credit to their school! Please come again! Philip Jones.

Anthea McIntyre MEP visit - Friday 18th Jan 2013

Waverley - EDEXCEL GCSE P2 Nov 12 Examination Grades

Congratulations to Year 11 for their outstanding modular results! 

Grades

Number of students who achieved:

1. A*/A = 64%

2. A*/C = 86%

3. predicted grade or higher = 75%

John Orchard (Vice-Chair of Governors at Bartley Green School) - Thursday 1st November 2012

As part of a day in Bartley Green School visiting the science department and seeing it at work I spent part of the morning at the Physics Factory at King Edward VI Five Ways School with a group of our Year 11 students. I had demonstrated to me that "Physics is Fun!" as well as being very a very important subject with far reaching implications for understanding our natural world.

I was very impressed with the interest and enthusiasm shown by Bartley Green pupils for physics and the fact that some of them want to apply to King Edward's to study A Level physics.

I am very grateful to King Edward's for providing the opportunity for our pupils to develop an interest in physics

John Orchard

New Physics Factory Ambassadors - 4th October 2012

We are pleased to announce the appointment of 14 new Physics Factory Ambassadors.

Last year's ambassadors made a real difference to the young people, teachers and VIPs using the Physics Factory. They spoke to them about studying Physics and how the Physics Factory benefits pupils who do not otherwise have a Physics specialist teaching them. They also helped non-specialist and specialist teachers alike appreciate practical ideas for making Physics relevant and fun. It was wonderful to watch these young people grow in confidence and knowledge through our ambassador initiative. Our four 2010-2011 ambassadors started university courses this September 2012 in Physics, Aeronautical engineering, Microbiology and Oceanography and we wish them every success.

Our new Ambassadors will be joining in with Physics Factory classes shortly - describing what A-level physics is like, why students may want to opt for it, encouraging more girls to continue with Physics beyond GCSE, as well as helping pupils with experiments and explaining aspects of Physics. If last year is anything to go by, their close hands-on help will really make a difference both to some of our students and practising teachers.

KEFW Open Weekend - Fri 21st Sept/Sat 22nd Sept

Thank's to all the incredible Five Ways students who helped out during the school's open weekend! You were awesome! Phil and Jenny.

Kingshurst Academy AQA P1 & P2 Training - 4th September 2012

 Loads of fun; very hands on. Deborah Reilly.

Excellent day, really inspirational! Ross Slater.

16 delegates (87% of delegates said the course was very good)

Haselor Primary School (Alcester) - Light & Sound Training - 3rd September 2012

All of the practical experiments were really good and had lots of 'simple' ways to describe the science behind it! Sam Bates.

8 delegates - 100% of the delegates said the course was very good.

August 2012 GCSE Physics Headlines

Waverley - overall EDEXCEL Physics grade
100% A*-C
42% A*/A

Bartley Green - overall EDEXCEL Physics grade
100% A*-C
41% A*/A

Harborne Academy - overall EDEXCEL Physics grade
71% A*-C
21% A*/A

Al-Hijrah Girls - overall EDEXCEL Physics grade
100% A*-C
71% A*/A

Al-Hijrah Boys - overall EDEXCEL Physics grade
100% A*-C
25% A*/A

Lordswood Girls - AQA P1
100% A*-C
40% A*/A

King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy
100% A*-C
19% A*/A

12th July 2013 St Nicholas Alcester Primary Music Challenge

Around 36 Year 5 pupils from Alcester had a busy day taking part in the Primary Science of Music Challenge. This comprised every pupil helping with demonstrations about sound and vibrations, calculating the length needed and making thongophones, working out the volume of a wine glass and playing a piece of music as a team, preparing PowerPoint slides about what they had learnt and finally giving an interactive show about the Science of Music to their parents and Year 6's.

16 July 2013 St Huberts Y6 Forces and Rockets workshop

Forces can be fun! That was the conclusion after Y6 audience participation in demonstrations of how forces have direction and size (opening a syrup tin with a hammer), how they can effect objects (28 young Andy Murreys!), Newtons three laws of motion (including hovering ping-pong balls and paperclips – N1, accelerating balloons and eggs – N2, a pop-pop boat, bed springs – N3. Each child also took part in the balancing a Helium balloon practical, the rocket balloon race and firing water rockets over the school field!

11th July 2013 Bidford School Y5 Primary Music Challenge

10th July 2013 Al-Hijrah School Electricity Teachers CPD

Four Science teachers at Al Hijrah school, who will be teaching the whole of Edexcel’s IGCSE, enjoyed trying out over 25 practicals about Electricity, Electrostatics and Electromagnetism in a half-day CPD session. We also discussed, and demonstrated how to use, different models for teaching and learning about electrical circuits.

NUC Subject Enhancement Course Day 6 - Earth in Space - Thursday 19th July 2012

You have both baffled and amazed me. You have inspired me to research it! Stuart.


A fantastic topic to end the two weeks on! Really interesting and fun. Laura Balding.


Sad to be leaving! Stephen Parkes.

NUC Subject Enhancement Course Day 5 - Light & Sound - Wednesday 18th July 2012

I loved every second of today! Year 10 work experience student.

NUC Subject Enhancement Course Day 4 - E.M.S. & Radioactivity - Tuesday 17th July 2012