SIXTH formers who launched a project to go into primary schools and help youngsters with science experiments are in line to win a prestigious science prize.
The teenagers from Oxford Spires Academy have already built rockets with Year Four pupils at St Christopher’s CofE Primary School in Cowley, and next term will head into other East Oxford schools to introduce children to chemistry and biology.
The school, launched in January on the site of the old Oxford School, has already been awarded £1,000 for being shortlisted for the Rolls-Royce Science Prize and could win another £20,000.
Sixth form scientist Alice Harsant, from Cowley, said: “We all want to get more involved with things to do with the community around the school, and we thought the best way was to do something we were all interested in and make other people interested in it as well.”
Picture: David Fleming
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