Warminster School

Faculty of Science

In Pursuit of Excellence

On behalf of the Faculty of Science and Heads of Departments I bid you a very warm welcome, and thank you for visiting the Chemistry Department web site. We hope you will enjoy browsing through our site, which has links to various aspects of our work and that you will also visit the Biology and Physics Department's sites. Not all of our activities are included in this site. Do please feel free to contact myself for further information or to pass on any comments.

Dr. D. R. Hankey

Head of Science

Head of Chemistry

dhankey@warminsterschool.org.uk

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• Challenge and stimulate our pupils and develop their interest in, and enthusiasm for, chemistry.
• Develop breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding in the subject, beyond examination specifications, and relate this across other disciplines, to events and systems in the world outside and to new achievements and discoveries.
• Offer opportunities for pupils to advance their involvement, knowledge and understanding in the subject.
• Provide opportunities for the gifted and talented, for pupils to be stretched and for pupils to be nurtured, as required.
• Encourage our students to think and communicate logically and synoptically, with appropriate terminology, and develop their powers of analysis.
• Train our pupils in practical techniques and expose pupils to sophisticated items of equipment as early as possible,
• Develop pupil use of ICT within the subject and develop a critical approach to scientific evidence and methods.
• Promote pupil achievement through publicity and establish pupil links with external organisations and events.

Pupils and staff alike very much enjoy working in a beautifully designed, state-of-the-art, fully networked and excellently resourced teaching facility. Accommodation on two floors includes eight spacious laboratories, one of which can also host large-scale demonstrations and lectures by internal and external speakers. Laboratories are individually designed, versatile and provide excellent and comfortable environments in which to learn and instruct. They are light and airy and contain abundant mains service points and storage facilities for apparatus and equipment, which is supplemented by resources held in Store Rooms and in the three Preparation Rooms. The latter store and prepare biological, chemical and physical material, accommodate a wealth of apparatus and equipment, contain freezer, cold storage and glass washing equipment as well as have provision for producing distilled and de-ionised water. A comprehensively equipped and up-to-date Resources Room with computer work stations and an Office add to the already impressive facilities provided to deliver the best in student education in the sciences. The Centre is also equipped to cater for pupils with limited hearing and mobility.