Group IV Project. 31 May to 2 June 2010

For three days the science labs and technology rooms were even busier than usual, as our Year 12 students threw themselves into the Group IV Project. The purpose of the project is to work in interdisciplinary teams were everyone brings different skills and knowledge to various projects and individuals are assessed on their teamwork, motivation, communication and their ability to reflect upon their learning. Most students were involved in environmental projects stemming from fieldwork carried out in Quarry Bay Country Park whilst others were involved in Food Technology projects (which strangely enough were over-subscribed!). The project is compulsory for all IB students, but our teams were enriched by also having BTEC students add their skills and abilities to the teams.


The three days culminated in an exposition, in which team B6 were judged to be the final winners for their work on how leaves are adapted to disperse water, cope with varying light intensity and the density of their stomata.

Congratulations to Sarah-Jane CULLINANE, William HOWARD, Vivian LEE, Belle LEUNG, Ernest LEUNG, Zahid MUGHAL and Marsha TEO.

Paul Bayne
Head of Physics