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Year 10 History Trip to the Science Museum
BackA group of Year 10 historians were lucky enough to visit the Science Museum on the 6th January. Students visited and saw up close the museum’s impressive medical artefact collection, ‘The Wellcome Galleries’, which features over three thousand objects and covers an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds. This is the second year in a row we have run this trip as it ties in very neatly to the ‘Medicine through Time’ topic that students study as part of the Edexcel GCSE History course. Students saw Fleming’s penicillin mould, Joseph Lister’s carbolic acid spray and the world’s first MRI scanner, as well as a prosthetic arm used by a professional pianist from 1906. Students also had time to visit the ‘Making the modern world’ exhibit which focuses on key technological innovations of the 20th century; this ties into the studying that students will do next year on the Cold War. Students also got to see the ‘Flight’ exhibit which traces the history of flight through a variety of aircrafts on display.
Students were behaved impeccably throughout the day, and even had time to buy a souvenir from the gift shop before departure.
One student said the following about the day, “I really enjoyed the visit and was particularly impressed by the wide variety of medical objects from the Medieval age all the way through to the Modern Day.”
Mr. Hargreaves
History Teacher
