On Tuesday afternoon, Caterham’s Lower Sixth Form Economists challenged their counterparts from Lingfield College to a healthy debate on some of the key questions of the British Economy today. The macro groups discussed whether there is a need for an austerity budget versus an expansionary one. After drawing up some quick arguments, Lingfield galiantly argued for austerity, […]
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Leading Imperial Proteomics Researcher Visits
On Wednesday Lower Sixth Biologists turned up to their lessons expecting to go through an exam, but instead were treated to a lecture by a senior proteomics researcher from Imperial College. Dr Harry Whitwell talked about how his department at Imperial separate and identify proteins through mass spectrometry, and how he uses this in his […]
Insight for Fourth Year Mathematicans at Maths in Action
Last Friday, some of our Fourth Year mathematicians travelled to the Emmanuel centre, near Westminster. Our first lecture began promptly at 10.50am and communicator Sophie Maclean provided us with an insight into the world of prime numbers. She demonstrated various types of prime numbers (Mersenne and Sophie Germain primes) and presented to us G.I.M.P.S. (Great […]
Senior Kangaroo Qualifications
Well done to the 16 pupils who qualified for the Senior Kangaroo, the follow-on round for the Senior Maths Challenge held before October. Particular congratulations to the eight Sixth Form pupils who achieved Merits, they were Millie, Sophie, and Lily in the Lower Sixth and Thomas, O’Teen, Leo, Belle and Nico in the Upper Sixth. […]
Christmas Coding Competition
To celebrate the end of term, the First Year Coding Club were tasked with designing and creating a Christmas-themed coding project. Their brief was left very open to allowing the creative juices to flow. Several types of games were created using the online Scratch program. These included games such as Flappy Reindeer, Catching Santas and […]
Caterham Enrichment’s Christmas Crossword
Mr Owen, Dr Scott and Mrs Hunter, the Enrichment Tutors, have cooked up a Christmas treat for the school’s scholars. Here is the fiendish Scholars’ Xmas Xword in case parents and members of the wider school community want to give it a crack over the festive season while the turkey is in the oven. Enjoy!
