I carried out the experiment to test for S.A. in the last week of term before Christmas, with help from Dr. Rob Hawkins - my biology teacher.
Rob, Carrie and myself took swabs from our noses, and spread the bacteria in petri dishes. The plates were then incubated to allow the bacteria to grow. The next day  colonies were taken of bacteria from the petri dishes and grew them in separate petri dishes which contained mannitol salt agar.
The next  day colonies were taken from the mannitol salt plates and stained them to look at under a microscope, and the next day a catalase test was performed.
I will now be able to put my results in my essay.

- Will