Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
AYAAN SHAH (L6P) Take a look around you, how many different materials can you see? Your device, which you are using to read this article, is composed of hundreds of tiny components, each made up of a myriad of materials, each designed and used for a specific purpose. Or consider the window - decades of innovation in material production have led to the windows we have today, transparent yet insulative. Recently, I stumbled upon an exciting field of science that spans physics, chemistry, and biology: materials science. I believe that this field will play a crucial role in the future of society and civilization, and in this article, we will examine the history, technology, and employment of a material we rely on every day: glass! The original raw materials of glass production comes from sand. Sand is formed when rocks compress with each other over a long period of time, creating small crystals known as quartz. These quartz crystals have a chemical composition of silicon dioxide, which is ...