This year we’ve expanded opportunities for our pupils with teams participating in prestigious competitions such as the Cambridge Biology Challenge and the Science in Medicine School Teams Prize by Homerton College, Cambridge and Imperial College London. Results are eagerly anticipated. Our commitment to the Royal Society of Biology competitions remains strong, with Paddy Grand achieving the highest score in Fourth Form in the UKBC Biology Challenge.

Our Dissection Club has flourished, attracting more members, and exploring a diverse range of specimens, including cuttlefish, insects, and pigs’ brains. Seeing how a snake’s anatomy can accommodate lungs was certainly a favourite.

Congratulations to our departing Upper Sixth biologists of whom more than two-thirds are continuing their bioscience studies in higher education. Happily, these pupils are going on to study medicine: Flora Scurr, Candice Ng and Pitiprapa Tanawattanakul. This year neuroscience has emerged as a popular destination with the addition of specialists Mr Lloyd Tanangonanband Miss Madeleine Seager to the Department.

Mr Alexander Ballentyne