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Competitions

The Biology department enters students from Years 12 and 13 into the annual Biology Olympiad. In 2010/2011 students achieved 4 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals and 1 highly commended and 3 commended awards. Two of our gold award winners (Matthew Morgan and Luke Perera) were in the top 40 highest scoring students (from 2,850 students who took part nationally) and were invited to the second round of the competition.  As Luke is in Year 12 he declined this opportunity until next year as this part of the competition can only be taken once.  We look forward to more excellent performances in 2011/2012.

Trips

Students in the Lower Sixth attend a fieldtrip to Winterton in Norfolk to study sand dune succession as part of their A level studies.

The department advertises and encourages Sixth Form students to attend lectures organised by the Biology society at the University of Cambridge.