Teachers enjoying Nicky Waller's workshop (and the following pictures)
The response to the CIEC talks at
the ASE conference this year was overwhelmingly positive with over 70 teachers
attending Jenny Harvey’s workshop Embedding ‘Working
Scientifically’ Skill within Real-life Contexts.
Jenny was delighted with the response, “Really positive comments with people saying
'Oh, I'm going to tweet about that now' and 'that was just what I needed' or
'that was great, thank you'. People loved the CIEC materials and think they're
really useful and different with lots of ideas and examples. They particularly
liked the hands on 'real life industrial' scenarios. I still had teachers
approaching me the next day to say how much they'd enjoyed my session and that
they couldn't wait to start using our resources.”
Joy Parvin’s session on Outstanding Science in Context
demonstrated how, by making the children into ‘scientists’ for the industry
based CIEC activities helps them to achieve more in both science understanding
and an understanding of how science underpins so much of industry.
Nicky Waller’s workshop
entitled Exciting Science Clubs for Key
Stage One. “People commented how it was great to have a session focusing on
the younger primary aged children as there were not many of these exclusively
in the ASE programme. I was pleased to have 30 attend and participate in the first
session of the day and my intention was to run a practical workshop, where they
got to try out a range of carefully planned, tried and tested science
activities either created for or adapted to suit children in Key Stage One.
They also explored how they can organise and manage a science club in their own
school, access reasonably priced resources and inspire even the youngest of our
future scientists.”
