Each year the Chemistry department enters large numbers of students for the Chemistry Olympiad and the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge with many receiving bronze, silver and gold awards. Each year (if accepted) Year 10 students take part in the residential Salters’ chemistry camps, and all take part in the iChemE essay writing competition, which the school has won on 4 occasions in the last 5 years. Students compete in various other RSC and internal competitions during KS4 and all are taken to the inspirational ‘Science Live’ conference at the New Theatre in Oxford.