Full details of the range of achievements and activities in the PE Department are detailed in the Sports Review section.
4.18 PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
AS
Entries
Grades
Outcome (%)
35
A
45.7
A/B
65.7
A/C
80
A2
Entries
Grades
Outcome (%)
31
A*
0
A*/A
29
A*/B
61.3
A*/C
90.3
Physics Department achievements and activities in 2014-15 include:
British Physics Olympiad GCSE Challenge- Seven Year 12 students took part in the competition: Conaill Prenter, Sé O’Kane, Ryan Quinn, Ruairí O’Kane, Brendan Kearney, Sarah McNeill and Niamh McKee. Congratulations to Brendan Kearney who achieved a Bronze Award.
The following Year 13 students participated in the AS Physics Challenge in March: Paul McCarron, Connor Devlin, Estella Tohill-Reid, Megan Monaghan, Laura Mockeviciute, Cormac Mackle, Kyle Johnston, James Tennyson, Dermot Donnelly, Eoghan McDonald and Hugh-Roe O’Donnell. Well done to all eleven students and congratulations to Megan Monaghan, Cormac Mackle and Eoghan McDonald who achieved Bronze Awards.
All Year 13 Physics students had the opportunity to visit Antrim Hospital Radiology Department. They had a tour of the radiology department and got to see how the different imaging techniques are used, eg. Ultrasound, MRI, CT scans and X-Ray machines in medicine.