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Eggciting
Science
This June Woodcote Science Department welcomed
10 new additions in the form of chickens! The eggs
and incubator arrived on the 6th June and the
hatching was eagerly awaited by both staff and
students. On Wednesday the first egg (number 7 for
those who were guessing and correctly predicted by
Mrs Smee and Mr Goodwin) was the first to hatch.
This was caught on video by Ms Payne and was
spotted on screens across the school for the next 2
weeks, much to the delight of those who missed the
event.
with only a few being pooed on! For those who
didn’t see them in lesson (or fancied helping clean
them out) Lab 8 was open before school, during
break time and after school for visitors and name
suggestions.
We were all very sad to see the chicks go to their
different homes and free range farms on the
Friday but look forward to repeating this again
next year. A massive thank you to all the staff and
students who helped out and visited us in Lab 8.
The rest of the chicks then followed in quick
succession and by Thursday at 3pm all of them had
hatched, some deciding to arrive during science
lessons. This led to many interesting questions from
the students about how they hatched and why they
were so quick to stand, despite being stepped and
sat on by their brothers and sisters.
From Mrs Smee (teacher), Eggburt, Simba,
Ghandi, Nugget, Gibbons, Chicky McChickface,
Shrek, Caramel, Elizabeth II and Dixie (chickens)
Over the next week and a half the chicks visited many
science classrooms and played an active part in the
lessons. Students had a chance to learn about their lifecycle,
genetics and variation. A few brave students
per lesson also volunteered to handle the chicks,