Year 7 Maths and Science Trip to the Science Museum



Sometimes the journey is an education in itself. For Shiplake College’s Year 7 a rush hour commute into London, a daily ritual that may be theirs’ in a decade’s time was areal eye-opener.

It was a lesson in patience as they had to wait for seats and then a lesson in keeping themselves occupied, reading the day’s newspaper, as their train chugged towards London. Then they learn the skills of strap-hanging and keeping their balance, dwarfed by taller pin-stripe suited figures and creative types, as they took on the London Underground at is busiest.

Their fortitude was rewarded by an exciting cross-curricular art and mathematics trip with a healthy seasoning of science stirred into. At the Science Museum they built on recent classroom studies of shapes in the Mathematics galleries before progressing to the Launch Pad exhibition with its array of hands-on practical experiments demonstrating mathematical and engineering principles.

The V and A Museum provided some superb opportunities for sketching with the boys inspired by ironworks motifs and ceramics.

Throughout the day the three teachers received a number of compliments on the boys’ exemplary behaviour and they were rewarded with a trip to Burger King on a less stressful journey home.