We are in an enviably strong position in having the excellent resources needed to deliver a first-class science education, including two fully-equipped laboratories and access to wonderful grounds to enable opportunities for learning outside the classroom.

Our land has been managed through Government Stewardship schemes to make it a haven for wildlife with abundant invertebrate ‘bugs’ for pupils to find and study as well as thriving populations of other ‘beasties’ including barn owls in our nest boxes and the amazing chalk stream life of the river Pang flowing through the middle of it.

In addition to the curricular focus associated with Senior School examinations and Scholarship attainment, we also understand the importance of opening up and challenging the world of science. Of course, the two areas have significant overlap: factual understanding, analysing data, problem solving, research, thinking skills and discovering links between topics and issues. We encourage pupils to appreciate and understand the relationship between evidence and theory. Appropriate science teaching should guide pupils to a point at which they understand that not all scientific information is ‘fact’ and that scientific understanding is like the many layered onion they get to examine under microscopes.