Primary Science Teachmeet at Woodslee Primary School, Bromborough
Wednesday March 23rd 2016.
Wednesday March 23rd 2016.
There were over 50 attendees: primary teachers from all types of schools, teaching assistants, students and other people working or interested in primary science.
The Teachmeet was held in conjunction with the ASE and Woodslee Primary. We had a number of sponsors who donated prizes for the free raffle and/or provided items for the teachers to take home: Urenco (Capenhurst), Twinkl, Airkix, Schofield and Sims (refreshments), Bloomsbury Publishing, SciChem, Global Learning Programme and the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
Pat Dower (below left) from The Association of Science Education started the presentations by encouraging teachers to register their school for the PSQM as a great way to recognise the work they are doing.
Tarah Patel (above right) from 'Into Film' in Manchester explained how the organisation supports teachers with using films in their teaching. She showed us some examples of how different films could be used in primary science e.g. 'Jurassic Park' and 'Back to the Future'. Its free for teachers to join up and their website is www.intofilm.org/resources
Jen Simpson (right) from 'Global Learning Programme' talked about how different global issues can be used as motivating real-world contexts for science investigations and challenges e.g. monsoon proof roofs (materials), flooding (growing plants). There's lots more information on their website www.glp-e.org.uk |
Philippa Moss (right), science leader at Birkenhead High School Academy Juniors, described the steps that she has taken to enable BHSA to achieve Bronze PSQM this year. It was interesting to hear the impact the award has had on teaching and learning science in her school and the pupils' attitudes and enjoyment of science. |
Sarah Longshaw (left) is a secondary science teacher who teaches science in a feeder primary school. The title of her talk was: "Working Scientifically….. Are we finding the answers to questions….. The questions to answer…… Or both?" Sarah had lots of interesting ideas for 'working scientifically' and also gave examples of 'supplementary questions' that had arisen from pupils' initial investigations e.g. Peter Pan's shadow. |
Jason MacDunne (right) from Rossmore School, Ellesmere Port, gave us examples of the ways that the school has moved towards being awarded gold PSQM this year including, effective leadership of science, school development plan and science, celebration of children's learning in science, demonstration of understanding of the importance and value of science to children’s learning, assessment, outside links and more! |
Mike Hollishead (left and below) from Airkix in Manchester provided everyone who attended the Teachmeet with a voucher for a free go at 'Indoor Skydiving'! He explained how at Airkix, children can benefit from the amazing experience of skydiving without having to jump from a plane plus carry out some forces related activities. |
Michelle Grimshaw (left) is North West Area Mentor for the Primary Science Teaching Trust and she explained how the PSTT can support primary science teachers. She encouraged all teachers to apply for a Primary Science Teaching Award. More information about the PSTT can be found here: www.pstt.org.uk |
Steven Lewis-Neil (below left) from Eco-Explorer told us about the wildlife related games that he has available on his website http://ecoexplorer.education/.
Dan Verinder (right) explained how Wordwall can be used to create quizzes and many other types of resources at http://beta.getwordwall.com/ |
Charlotte Still (above right) from the Royal Society of Chemistry presented the many different resources available on the RSC website for primary science: including practical videos, science stories for talk, activity ideas etc. Join the 'Learn Chemistry' partnership for free here:
rsc.li/lc-partnership
rsc.li/lc-partnership
Emily Hankey (right) from Millgate House Education (www.millgatehouse.co.uk) showed us how different comic strips, news stories or fictional stories could be used to enhance teaching of 'Evolution and Inheritance'. |