Year 8 have been participating in activities to do with forensic science. They have been trying to discover who killed a teacher from their school. There were four suspects. All of them were teachers at the school and they were all owed money by the victim.

We went round to all of the activities, interviewing some of the pupils and asked what they were doing. Activities included fingerprinting and visiting the crime scene. They learnt about how to retrieve fingerprints using brushes and magnets and also looked at blood and hair samples from the scene. Several pupils were keen to share their views on the day. 

"Technology Day is a very good idea because it allows pupils to try their hand at activities that they would not normally get to try." - Colin Webb (8E)

Year Eight have been split up into groups to try and solve an investigation. This was a forensic science experience where they tried to solve who killed the school caretaker. The activities they did were fingerprinting and footwear printing, examining hair and blood samples and they got to use all of these in a crime scene at the end. They all really enjoyed the day and learnt quite a lot about crimes.   

Cyber Crime is a big problem in the 20^th century because much of the planet is now run by computers and technology. Not even the government and army are protected against some of the greatest hackers in the world. It comes in all forms from programs, e-mails and pop-ups.

Although some viruses are very real and will infect your computer causing it to do a variety of different things from whipping your computers memory to installing annoying pop-ups that are hard to get rid of.