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Secondary Weekly Highlight: Science in Action - STEM Week 2023 Secondary Weekly Highlight: Science in Action - STEM Week 2023

STEM Week 2023 took place earlier this month and was led by the Science and Design Technology prefect team in collaboration with the Maths, Computer Science and House prefects, as well as the KLASSMeds team. In a truly collaborative endeavour, our student leaders created a range of STEM-tastic opportunities for our EP community. Our Science and DT Senior Prefects, Gha Yuan Ng..

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Secondary Weekly Highlight: Experiment As Learning - Inaugural Science Fair Secondary Weekly Highlight: Experiment As Learning - Inaugural Science Fair

Hypothesising, exploring, experimenting, designing, researching and evaluating are all important aspects of learning and thinking. They can lead to discovery, understanding, growth and innovation. As we prepare for our inaugural EP Science Fair, which will take place on Tuesday 28th February, Science Prefects Wei Er Loke (Year 12) and Yvaine Ziling Low (Year 9), describe the..

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Primary Weekly Highlight: Learning about ‘Animals including Humans’ Primary Weekly Highlight: Learning about ‘Animals including Humans’

Learning here at the Primary Campus is in full swing as our students dig deep into a whole range of learning across the school. Recently I have been inspired by so many Year 4 students visiting my office to share with me their learning about Animals including Humans. 

This unit seems to have raised student interest and enthusiasm for learning to very high levels. The..

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Primary Weekly Highlight: We are Scientists! Primary Weekly Highlight: We are Scientists!

In Year 3, the students have been working hard as scientists this term. The children started the year learning about rocks and more recently have moved on to a biology focus studying animals including humans. The first lesson taught the children that humans are not plants because we cannot make our own food! The children were then fascinated to learn that humans are animals..

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Secondary Weekly Highlight: Future Doctors: KLASS Medics at EP Secondary Weekly Highlight: Future Doctors: KLASS Medics at EP

A career in medicine is both an exciting and a daunting prospect. In a competitive and demanding field, how can our young people prepare themselves for the training required, as well as the application process to enter programmes of study? In this week’s Secondary Blog, biologist and Vice Principal for Our Staff, Nicola Howard, shares insights into the valuable forum created..

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Our Very First Science Fair!🔬 Our Very First Science Fair!🔬

We're really excited to hear we are going to be holding our first ever KLASS Science Fair! Over to Helen, one of our Year 11 Science Prefects to tell us more...

"On the 28th of February 2023, Alice Smith will be holding our very first science fair in which students are qualified to participate and present their own research topic which may include the following subjects:..

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