Encouraging Small People to Think Big

  The Great Science Share for Schools This year was the third year of involvement for myself and our school and have found our Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) journey to be incredibly valuable: so I thought it was a good idea to share some details with you including the GSSfS Special Edition, ‘Primary Science Journal’ and the recent Association of Science Education (ASE) Conference session. GSSfS is such a great annual event to engage children in science and to develop science knowledge and understanding as well as other key transferable skills. I was so happy that Dr Lynne Bianchi, GSSfS creator, asked me to take part in her GSSfS session at the recent online ASE Conference. It was brilliant to hear what had been happening across the country, plans going forward and to see GSS Champions online including Angharad Pass and Dr Jo Montgomery. I was proud to share our GSSfS journey as our school gathers science momentum and confidence.   In previous years--- 2018 W...

Brenda Keogh Lecture, Association of Science Education (ASE) Conference 2021 I was completely delighted to be a speaker during the Brenda Keogh Lecture at the ASE Conference last week. Feeling incredibly honoured and so pleased to take part along with David Allen @CreativePrisci, Helen Spring @SpringLearns and Tom Martin @Farmer_Tom_UK, I wanted to add a blog about it.   During the lecture, we discussed the huge benefits of outdoor learning. Helen Spring is such an expert in this field and Tom Martin’s FarmerTime is a brilliant way to engage pupils in the outdoors and careers education. As a full-time teacher @burlingtonjnr I spoke about our schools outdoor learning journey. Indeed, I introduced Tom and Farmertime at last years Teach Meet during the Conference in Reading. We have been undertaking Farmer Time at our school with Farmer Colin @sw_farmer for 18 months.   I would like to add links here that were referred to in the lecture and also some detail to what was discussed ...