TV’s Greg Foot fires off a whizzbang at Bow School for British Science Week
TV scientist Greg Foot creates bottle rocket with pupil Peter McCartney at Bow School for British Science Week which runs till Sunday [photos: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire] - Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
TV scientist Greg Foot turned up in London’s East End to get schoolchildren ready for a whizzbang of a Science Week.
TV scientist Greg Foot creates bottle rocket with pupil Peter McCartney at Bow School for British Science Week which runs till Sunday [photos: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire] - Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
It’s ‘demo day’ on Thursday when 600 schools up and down the country spark the imaginations of pupils and pump science back into the veins of Britain’s national culture.
Greg arrived at Bow Secondary yesterday to set the youngsters’ imaginations alight with physics and chemistry.
“Encouraging pupils to do hands-on experiments and try things out can be a great way to introduce them to science,” he said.
“It gives them some real world context alongside their curriculum studies.”
TV scientist Greg Foot creates bottle rocket with pupil Peter McCartney at Bow School for British Science Week which runs till Sunday [photos: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire] - Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Greg is known for creating spectacular demonstrations on TV and big science shows on stage.
He is helping to organise Demo Day as one of the flagship activities for British Science Week, which runs till Sunday with a programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events for all ages.
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He is the resident scientist on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, has been on BBC Radio doing experiments with the Scott Mills team and is a regular presenter on the YouTube Head Squeeze channel.
Greg presented a six-part science series for BBC 3 in 2012 called The Secrets of Everything.
TV scientist Greg Foot creates bottle rocket with pupil Peter McCartney at Bow School for British Science Week which runs till Sunday [photos: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire] - Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
But there was no secret when he arrived at Bow Secondary yesterday to fire off British Science Week.
Bow Secondary science teacher Calvin Chu said: “Together we want to make science cool again—so I hope events like Demo Day this Thursday inspires kids of all ages to understand and appreciate the incredible depth and scope of science in modern life.”
The annual campaign aims to inspire teachers, technicians and pupils to explore new concepts, to provoke discussions and to generate excitement through running hands-on science demonstrations in class.
Demo Day events are taking place across east London and all over the UK, from digital demos kicking off in Londonderry to events in schools in East Anglia, Inverness and Cornwall in “an explosion of physics, chemistry, technology, engineering and maths”.
The Demo Day 2016 map has a list of schools taking part in British Science Week events.
