Science week was enormously successful because so many subjects took part in the event. The working party consisting of Donna Treen, Karen Broadbent and Laura Scovell were particularly hard working, meeting regularly to produce a script for the week.

The Forensic Science theme was based on solving who committed the brutal murder of Mr Dominic Fullman.

The following activities took place:

• PhotoFit drawings of the murderer (Art Department)
• Orienteering to find clues (PE Department)
• Soil analysis (Geography Department)
• Press releases and reporting (English Department)
• Role play during assemblies (Drama Department)
• Fabric analysis (DT Department)
• DNA database (ICT Department)
• Chromatography, detergent investigations, blood splatter analysis, pollen analysis and DNA electrophoresis (Science department)
• Maths and Languages entered into the spirit of the week by having a science focus.

Two students from each form attended daily press conferences at 8.35 each day and press releases were used to write articles in different styles from tabloid journalism to scientific journalism.

The press releases were so realistic that we were contacted by the local press to find out more about the death of Mr Fullman. Unfortunately, they lost interest when we told them that it was part of our science week and that he was not really dead.

Dominic Fullman, Rachel Seymour and Bryn Glen gave their time generously to prepare the video and photographic evidence. The effort and enthusiasm of the teachers and sixth form students who took part contributed to the maintenance of pupils’ interest right up to the final assembly on Friday when the ‘murderer’ was revealed.

Our local community police officer and a crime scene investigator from Sutton Police Station contributed to the final assembly to give it an edge of reality.