Bishop Barrington Science Department

Massive thanks to the amazing #scienceAmbassadors from #bishopBarrington @BBScience2 It is such a joy to welcome you back to #celebratescience (& exactly how many galaxies did you help make…?!) enjoy the rest of your half term! @durham_uni @ogdentrust 🌌

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

Happy Mother’s Day! 💐 A special thank you to any female out there who has a positive influence within our students’ life. Thank you for helping ensure Bishop Barrington Academy students arrive everyday to school safe and well and ready to learn. Thank you.

Thank you to everyone that donated their Morrisons it’s good to grow tokens to the school, we have received our goodies and the eco garden club can’t wait to plant them. @Morrisons #itsgoodtogrow

A massive thank you to the year 10 boys that came along to gardening club tonight to help plant apple trees that we have kindly received!

At NASA, women are making history every day as leaders and role models for the next generation of explorers. Join us in commemorating #InternationalWomensDay by learning about some @WomenNASA who inspire us: nasa.gov/women

Huge thank you to @TheSchoolSeedB1 for the seeds! Can’t wait to get these planted!

If any pupils are interested in taking part in the #BigGardenBirdWatch this weekend pop and see Mrs Thompson in science for an identification sheet. Just take an hour out of your day to see what birds visit your local area

At tonight’s eco garden club the pupils completed their first RSPB #wildchallenge we are working towards our bronze award @Natures_Voice #RSPB

After a successful Christmas morning launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is on its 29-day trip to its observing spot. But you can keep up with #JWST here! trib.al/8udUNW4

A lot of reindeer food for sprinkling on Christmas Eve can contain ingredients harmful to wildlife. For this reason gardening club have been making wildlife friendly food which contains bird seed, Oates and edible glitter.

As you look up at the half moon tonight that bright ‘star’ above the it is in fact the Planet Jupiter and a little off to the right is fainter Planet Saturn, with the three objects forming what is known as a conjunction.

Actor William Shatner, 90, known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek, becomes the oldest person to go to space bbc.in/3FJ9p8g

“What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine,” William Shatner, back from space, tells Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. "I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this.” spaceflightnow.com/2021/10/13/new…

A different way of looking at cells: strawberry lace - cell membrane, icing - cytoplasm, smartie - nucleus, sprinkles - mitochondria. This is an animal cell can anyone design a plant cell biscuit?

The eco garden club are absolutely over the moon with the kind donation of gloves!

Europe's BepiColombo mission bears down on Mercury bbc.in/3urpBpr

Even in the rain eco garden club still went ahead, but inside and we had loads of great ideas! Well done everyone!

Drumroll, please 🥁 The 2021 #XmasLectures will be led by Professor Jonathan Van-Tam! The 3-lecture series is titled: ‘Going viral: How Covid changed science forever’.

Who has spotted the amazing full ‘harvest’ moon tonight? At 19:54 you should also be able to spot the International Space Station will rise from the Western twilight and cross the entire sky, "flying" over the planets Jupiter & Saturn.