King's girls Cassie Boffey (U6SB) and Isabel Hughes (U6LB) both won Nuffield science bursaries during the summer to allow them to work on their individual scientific projects for 4-6 weeks with research departments of universities.

Cassie's project looked at the effect of micro RNA 21 and cell proliferation - a drug which inhibits cancer cell growth.

Isabel's project was a production on mono-disparate particles using inkjet technology which increases the efficiency of inhalers.

Both girls recently presented their projects at the CREST awards and both won gold awards for their outstanding work.

Head of Physics Mr Yalland said, "The girls have completed some fine pieces of research with their Nuffield Bursaries and to get a CREST gold award is a tremendous achievement. It just goes to show that despite the gloom about girls and science, girls can succeed with the right encouragement and teaching: at King's we buck national trends by having a far greater Science uptake at A level than most schools."