On Monday 12th July eight year 8 students went to St Richard’s Catholic College to listen to Johnny Ball give a lecture on Maths and Science. This formed part of the Gifted and Talented enrichment programme. As most adults will remember from his television programmes, Johnny is a very passionate and inspirational speaker. He made it clear to all the students how important Maths and Science are in the world and that they have the ability within them to succeed but must choose to be educated and educate themselves in order to do so. He also made the interesting point that 30% of the jobs that will be available to them in the future haven’t even been created yet because technology is constantly evolving.
A lot of the topics he covered were extremely fascinating and need to be looked at in depth. So, for those of you who have an interest in Maths and Science, you might want to Google the following and impress your teachers with your new found knowledge:
The Fibonacci sequence
Isaac Newton and the law of gravity
Golden ratio
Egyptian pyramids and mathematics
Thank you to the students involved for being on your best behaviour and making sure your uniform looked perfect! These students were:
Max Hay
Luka Djordjevic
Reggie Smith
Jordan Bateman
Aaron Saunders
Lee Schooling
Abbie Corke
Gemma Young
Miss Delgado
G&T coordinator
