Making a heat exchanger prior to a site visit
Why not use the next few weeks while the schools are on the
long summer holiday to think about getting your industry/site better known in
the local community?
Working with local primary schools has so many advantages to
your business. The flagship primary project from CIEC (Centre for Industry
Education Collaboration) is the Children Challenging Industry Project (CCI).
One of CIEC’s Advisory Teachers works with one class at a time
by going into school and carrying out science activities with an industrial
context with the class. The class teacher observes and joins in. The
culmination of the sessions is a visit to a local industry where the children
can see the science they have been doing in school translated into industry.
The result is the children’s science results improve, they
remember the whole experience for years afterwards and many of them become
interested in working in the science industries. The primary teachers gain
excellent CPD in their own school and the local industries find that not only do
the local children and community benefit but the experience of working with the
children and schools promotes job satisfaction.
Children Challenging Industry runs in the north of England and
the Hertfordshire area. If your company is interested in getting involved
(wherever you are) please contact either Joy Parvin or Gayle Pook (Co-directors
of CIEC) at ciec@york.ac.uk
