Shrewsbury High School pupils part of record attempt
Pupils at a school in Shropshire have taken part in a world-record attempt for the biggest multi-venue practical science lesson.
Girls from Shrewsbury High School were among 2,000 UK pupils involved in yesterday morning's bid.
The lesson at the school focused on measuring acceleration due to gravity using two methods – dropping an object and using a pendulum.
Mayor of Shrewsbury Councillor Keith Roberts was on hand at the event as one of the independent witnesses to the world record.
A total of 61 girls from the Shrewsbury School took part in the hour-long lesson.
The attempt was being done by schools in the Girls' Day School Trust, the leading group of independent girls' schools in the UK, as part of its 140th anniversary celebrations this year.
Ben Jason, marketing and development manager for Shrewsbury High School, said they should know before Christmas whether the record has been broken.
He said the information from across all of the schools had to be collected together and then sent off the to the Guinness World Records team for verification.
"We won't know for a handful of days if we have passed the record, " he added.
"But I'm pretty certain we have," he said.
"We are told we will know for certain before Christmas.
"We had 61 girls taking part in the lesson. It was something like 2,300 children nationwide."
