One of our Year 7 students, Coralie, wrote this insightful report on the Year 7 science trip to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester and the Cheltenham Science Festival:
“On Thursday 5th June all of Year 7 went on a science trip to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, and the Cheltenham Science Festival.
We left Rendcomb at 9:30 after some logo quizzes in Godman with Mrs Thompson, Mrs George, and Mr Niven. We headed straight to the Corinium Museum and got seen to quickly by one of the staff where she led us to a room to give us a slideshow tour of the museum with some of their best artefacts.
Once she had finished speaking, we had some free time to explore the museum and look around. There were some places you could go to try on outfits related to that section of the museum, and some of us had our pictures taken.
Once we were all done and had gathered in the gift shop, Mr Niven counted us all up and we walked to the buses driven by Colin and Mrs Thompson. When we were in the bus, we headed over to Cheltenham but had to make a pit stop to drop Mrs George back to school. We hit the road again, and once we got to Cheltenham, we had some lunch in the rain, which was quite wet, and then Mr Niven gathered us and we walked to the Town Hall to get our fish dissection talk.
When we were seated, we waited for about ten minutes and then the man came out and introduced us to the fish and some terms to refer to. First, he cut open a skinny, green fish and showed us the stomach, the eyes, and the tail. After that he showed us the larger, pink fish and he showed us the stomach, the tail, the eyes, and the heart. He concluded the talk by giving a girl at the front the green fish’s eye lens, which was quite funny!
After the talk we were free to roam around the discovery zone, full of science-themed activities which were fun and educational. There were modelling cells with clay, VR headsets to try (which made me quite dizzy) and we even learned how to give CPR to a dummy. Thank you to Mr Niven, Mrs Thompson, Colin, and all the people who were involved in the festival.”
