Highlight of the Week

Year 8s secure Salters' Chemistry Festival victory

Four of the Cathedral School's finest Year 8 chemists competed against 13 other South Wales schools yesterday in the Salters' Chemistry Festival.

Held at Cardiff University's School of Chemistry, the four pupils faced two different two-hour long practically based problem solving tasks.   They worked together to solve a ‘murder' using forensic techniques, including test tube reactions and flame tests for ions, before undertaking a series of acid/alkali/water based experiments to work out how to produce, on demand, a given temperature rise in 60 seconds.

At the conclusion of the event, the teams all gathered in a lecture theatre to hear the results of their labours, and CSL were announced as winners of the University Challenge, having been the closest to the 6^oC rise requested.

The team's Chemistry teacher, Mr Roberts said: "This was an excellent achievement by the girls and due reward for the way in which they worked so well as a team, methodically undertaking the challenge to obtain the desired outcome. Well done."