Posted on: 2/06/2025Posted on: June 24th 2025
NPL Air Quality Trip
On Thursday, 19th June 2025, the Environmental Society went on a trip to the National Physical Laboratory to see their Air Quality and Atmospheric Measurement Labs. The students started off the trip by attending a talk about NPL air quality group. They then had the opportunity to visit 5 different labs that looked into: diffusion tube measurements, heavy metal analysis, volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide and nitrogen levels. These link directly back to the project the club has been running in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and NPL, where they are carrying out a survey on the air quality of the Bishop Wand site on Thursdays after school.
A year 10 student on the trip said that 'my favourite part was learning about the particle measurements and how they use radioactive sources to make accurate sizes of the particles'.
The students represented Bishop Wand very well and showed a genuine interest in the labs and science. Thank you to NPL for facilitating this fantastic opportunity.
Miss K Baxter
Head of Physics
