Science Workshop Days

For over 12 years thousands of children throughout the south of England children have been enthralled by this workshop. Delivered with a great deal of humour, it is guaranteed to engage and educate the children from start to finish. The teacher who delivers this workshop is a fully qualified primary teacher with many years of experience. This workshop will address every learning objective for the topic of ‘Rocks’, as well as many of those for ‘Working Scientifically’.

• All resources will be provided
• No additional adults are required
• This workshop is best to do in the normal classroom
• The workshop will last the entire school day
• The classroom will be left as neat as it was at the start of the day.

Children will be provided with the opportunity to do a range of practical activities with only one partner. These activities include:

• using electronic microscopes to observe rocks, mineral, soils and fossils
• examine real fossils
• make models of fossils (to take home)
• model the processes that create sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks
• make exploding volcanoes
• discover the properties of a variety of rocks.

We always receive exceptional feedback from schools, and the children remember what they have learned for years!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn everything that you need to know about forces while having a lot of fun!

This workshop has been designed to ensure that every child has as many practical opportunities to investigate forces as is possible in one school day. Set around the theme of aiding a spy to capture the infamous villain Fred the force Newton, this workshop is 100% guaranteed to ensure that every child gets hands-on with their learning in a manner that will keep them enjoying and engaging in their learning from start to finish.

• All the objectives for ‘Forces’ for Upper Key Stage 2 will be addressed
• Many of the objectives for ‘Working Scientifically’ will be addressed
• All resources will be provided
• No additional adults are required
• The children will learn in small groups of only three children
• This workshop is best to do in the normal classroom
• The workshop will last the entire school day
• The classroom will be left as neat as it was at the start of the day.

Children will be provided with the opportunity to do a range of practical activities. These activities include:

• testing and improving parachutes
• accurately using force meters
• testing levers
• investigating a range of pulleys
• making models with gears
• testing boats
• investigating upthrust
• discovering how inclined planes work
• making and improving marble runs.

We always receive exceptional feedback from schools, and the children remember what they have learned for years!

Based around the very popular hobby of Escape Rooms, this incredible workshop, which we have run in schools for the last seven years, will 100% engage and educate a class of children, while at the same time provide them with some awe and wonder, and a sense of discovery.

Armed only with their science equipment, each group of three children will need to use their knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to retrieve the ‘deadly poison’ and escape the science laboratories. Each of the laboratories will challenge the children to investigate, puzzle solve and apply their scientific understanding and practical skills. Only if they do this, will they discover the codes that will enable them to unlock the boxes and various other containers to finally find the poison and escape.

• All the objectives for ‘States of Matter’ for Lower key Stage 2 will be addressed
• Many of the objectives for ‘Working Scientifically’ will be addressed
• All resources will be provided
• No additional adults are required
• The children will learn in small groups of only three children
• This workshop is best to do in the normal classroom
• The workshop will last the entire school day
• The classroom will be left as neat as it was at the start of the day.

Children will be provided with the opportunity to do a range of practical activities. These activities include:

• the use of electronic microscopes to observe a range of materials
• testing the strength of different solids
• discovering the viscosity of different liquids
• testing various ‘mystery powders’
• melting solids
• making their own candles
• evaporating and condense water
• modelling the water cycle
• using chemical reactions to create gases
• investigating popping candy
• using their knowledge of gases to launch rockets.

We always receive exceptional feedback from schools, and the children remember what they have learned for years!

Never has a science workshop been more inline with a global issue. Not a week goes by without the future of energy supply and use in the UK being prominent in the news. This workshop provides the pupils with an opportunity to understand the science behind the policies, but in a manner that is fully engaging, entertaining and optimistic.

This workshop has been designed to ensure that every child has as many practical opportunities to investigate electricity as is possible in one school day. Set around the theme of saving planet Earth, this workshop is 100% guaranteed to ensure that every child get hands-on with their learning throughout the entire day.

• All the objectives for ‘Electricity’ for Upper Key Stage 2 will be addressed
• Many of the objectives for ‘Working Scientifically’ will be addressed
• All resources will be provided
• No additional adults are required
• The children will learn in small groups of only three children
• This workshop is best to do in the normal classroom
• The workshop will last the entire school day
• The classroom will be left as neat as it was at the start of the day.

Children will be provided with the opportunity to do a range of practical activities. These activities include:

• burning materials
• making a copy of the first ever battery
• discovering which organic matter makes the best electrolyte for batteries
• investigating series circuits
• changing and measuring the voltage in circuits
• exploring conductors and insulators
• making a steady hand game
• measuring with light meters, sound meters and volt meters
• testing and making switches
• making electrical cars
• discovering the ways by which the UK generate electricity
• working out the science behind turbines
• using solar power to generate electricity
• using wind power to power turbines
• modelling global warming
• investigating the chemical reactions behind coral bleaching.

We always receive exceptional feedback from schools, and the children remember what they have learned for years!