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Last week, we welcomed visitors from Bidborough Primary School, who are taking part in their Children's University scheme. 

Children’s University is an award scheme for children that encourages, tracks and celebrates their participation in learning beyond the classroom. Stamps are awarded for taking part in clubs, online activities, and other activities done alone, or with the family, at home and in the local area. Children can keep a log of everything they do, and each hour of participation takes them one step closer to their next certificate.

TWGGS was contacted by Mrs Willock, Deputy Headteacher at Bidborough, appealing for volunteers who would be interested in helping them by offering a mini course of five sessions across the school year for their Key Stage 2 children. Ideally, the course was to be something that the children would not experience as part of the curriculum.

Mrs Truman, one of our Biology Lab Technicians, was delighted to offer the pupils a forensic science course, hosted here in one of our labs. The first, exciting session took place last week, with the innovative approach of setting up a crime scene and asking all the children to be forensic scientists for the afternoon. The children were asked to collect all the evidence, and then analyse fingerprints and footprints, trying to determine who they might belong to. 

The course continues with four more sessions over coming months, when the participants will look at all the other evidence they will have collected (blood samples, hair fibres/feathers, mystery solutions and substances, the ink from a ransom note, and even DNA from a snotty tissue).