Royal Mail stamps launched by pupils from Charles Darwin School
Students from Charles Darwin School have unveiled Royal Mail’s innovative ‘jigsaw’ design stamps to highlight how world famous Darwin put together the evolution puzzle...more
Feb 2009
Bromley Schools link with Galapagos children through BBC World Class
Young people from Bromley and the Galapagos Islands twinned for Darwin's birthday on February 12th. As part of the BBC's Darwin season, pupils from three schools close to Down house where Darwin lived for 40 years will be twinning with young people living on the Galapagos Islands...more
Jan 2009
Darwin200
Darwin200 is a national programme of events celebrating Charles Darwin’s scientific ideas and their impact around his two hundredth birthday on 12 February 2009.
The celebrations began on 1 July, 150 years since Darwin and Wallace announced the theory that rocked science and society, and will continue until 24 November 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species....more
Jan 2009
Heritage Lottery helps Bromley Council evolve Darwin discovery project
It was in the peaceful countryside that now forms part of the Borough of Bromley that naturalist Charles Darwin formulated his seminal theories on evolution. And now, thanks to a grant of £227,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the influence of those surroundings and its biodiversity will be the subject of a series of public events and special activities...more
26.6.07
& 27.6.07
A collaborative approach to Darwin Inspired Learning
Drama and science students from the sixth forms at Charles Darwin School and Newstead Wood School were mentors to pupils in Years 3 and 4 at Cudham and Downe Primary Schools when they investigated the life and times of Charles Darwin...more Three students in costumes appropriate to the period when Darwin lived at Down House.