Young scientists at St Benedict’s, Ealing, recently held their annual Science Fair, which was attended by 340 children from local primary schools.

All students in Year 8 presented their projects, which included hands-on experiments and activities. St Benedict’s pupils had been working on their projects in biology, chemistry and physics lessons over several weeks, devising and conducting experiments, and carefully recording their results and conclusions. Visiting children quizzed the St Benedict’s scientists about their projects and discovered lots of scientific facts, finding out about what joins muscle to bones, what oobleck is and what happens to teeth in sugary drinks.

Everyone enjoyed a fantastic day of science – fittingly, in British Science Week, on Einstein’s birthday, and the day on which we lost one of our greatest scientists, Professor Stephen Hawking.