August 2007. The Chemistry Department had another excellent year in public Year 10 and Year 11 GCSE and sixth form A-level examinations. Results achieved exceeded MidYis predictions and national, examination board and school averages and showed significant value-added factors in the quality of the Department’s teaching and learning.

October.  Another spectacular Open Day!  Year 10 chemists studying the chemical evolution of the earth's atmosphere created a fantastic sound, light, interactive walk through laboratory experience.  With staff assistance and dry ice chemical effects, pupils escorted prospective parents and pupils through a fascinating history of how our earth's atmosphere has changed over 4.6 billion years.  From an early atmosphere of mainly carbon dioxide released through volcanic activity to formation of the oceans, the first anaerobic bacteria to eventual evolution of photosynthesising algae, bacteria and plants that colonised the earth to formation of the ozone layer, our students 'recreated' every stage in this fascinating GCSE topic.