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The Bexwyke Lecture was introduced in 2008, and is aimed at pupils in Years 5 and 6. As well as being attended by all our Junior School boys, pupils from local junior and prep schools are invited to come and join us for a day of workshops, as well as the Lecture itself.
This event is managed by our Director of Public Relations,
Sally-Anne Rogers
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The 2012 Lecture
Tuesday 6 March 2012
We are delighted to announce that Dr Phil Manning, Senior Lecturer in Palaeontology & Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, will present our 2012 Bexwyke Lecture.
Read the BBC News article on the 66 million-year-old dinosaur mummy Phil and his team named 'Dakota' here: You slice through this and you're looking at the cell structure of dinosaur skin. That is absolutely gobsmacking! Phil Manning, University of Manchester
The 2012 Bexwyke Challenge
A personalised signed copy of Phil's illustrated book, Dinomummy, written for children will awarded to the winner of the 2012 Bexwyke Poster Challenge. Details of the Challenge are below.
To access links to images, video and press coverage of last year's Lecture, please scroll down the page to the 2011 section.
Dinomummy
In 2000, teenage dino-hunter Tyler Lyson stumbled across the fossil remains of a hadrosaur in the remote hills of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. More than a collection of fossilized bones, Tyler discovered a three dimensional mummified dinosaur—a dinomummy. He and a paleontologist from the University of Manchester in England, Dr Phil Manning, led an excavation that would change the way we think about dinosaurs. Named for its place of discovery, “Dakota” was gradually uncovered and moved to a lab for further excavation and analysis. Tyler and Phil’s enthusiasm, expertise, and years of work blend as this paleontological detective story unfolds.
Stunning computer-generated artwork, based on fieldwork and laboratory studies of the hadrosaur specimen, brings Dakota and its environment back to life on the pages of this amazing book. Travel back in time to explore Hell Creek 65 million years ago, when herds of hadrosaurs migrated across vast floodplains.
Dakota died during the Late Cretaceous Period on the floodplains of North America and its body was locked in a rocky tomb. But Dakota’s story was far from over. From the rugged badlands of Hell Creek to high-tech scientific labs, photographs document the incredible story of two men and a very special dinosaur. Read more
Dr Phil Mannings Blog 'Dinosaur CSI' can be found here and his formal biography here
The 2012 Bexwyke Poster Challenge
Every year all children attending the day are invited to enter our Bexwyke Poster Challenge. This year's competition is to 'Create your own dinosaur'. Draw your dinosaur on an A3 sheet and note its special key features. The closing date for entries is 9 February 2012.
Important instructions for the competition
- Posters should be a maximum A3 in size
- Write your name and school on the back of the design
- Send your poster to:
Jacky Thorne
The Manchester Grammar Junior School
Old Hall Road
Manchester M13 0XT
All posters are judged by the guest speaker.
The 2011 Lecture
A Year in the Life of a Newsround Presenter
CBBC Newsround presenter Sonali Shah was our guest lecturer at the 2011 event.
Primary children from local schools in the area joined our boys for the day in specifically designed communication workshops, followed by Sonali's lecture entitled A Year in the Life of a Newsround Presenter to an audience of over 350 children and parents.
See images on Flickr and our press story here.
To watch a short video of the 2011 Bexwyke Lecture please follow this link to mgsTV.
Last year's winner of the Bexwyke Poster Challenge was MHSG pupil, Emma Rowson, pictured below. Emma received a copy of the Newsround Yearbook personally signed by Sonali.
The 2010 Lecture
Popular children's writer Caroline Lawrence presented the 2010 Bexwyke Lecture in March.
In an illustrated talk Caroline shared the secrets of how she used archetypal characters to create the heroes for her best-selling books and how her simple seven-point plot structure allowes her to write more than two books a year. Caroline also talked about how Roman artefacts give her fun clues for her mysteries and there was also time for the children to ask her questions at the end of the Lecture. All thoroughly enjoyed the day!
In the words of Sam Harris: The Bexwyke Lecture was amazing. Caroline Lawrence was a great public speaker. I learned so much about the Romans and I even made my own Roman tile.
The 2009 Lecture
The topic was space and space exploration with a series of workshops and talks on a wide variety of space-related themes, and the highlight of the day was the Lecture, given by Dr Maggie Aderin from EADS Astrium, a world leader in the design and manufacture of satellite systems; she also works closely with the British National Space Centre (BNSC).
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