Associated Organisations’ activities
ABPI Resources for Schools
(All Key Stages)
Curriculum related resources which have been developed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and link topics studied in school to their application in industry and in research.
www.abpischools.org.uk
Aimhigher Sussex
(Ages 13-19)
Aimhigher Sussex offers a wide variety of activities for ‘target' school and college students from the ages of 13-19. These aim to stimulate interest in further study and develop skills and self-confidence.
www.aimhighersussex.org
Amberley Working Museum
Amberley is an ideal setting that enables children to appreciate the natural downland environment and the influences man and technology have had on it. The Museum exhibits link well to themes such as ‘Wood to Wheel', ‘Carriage to Bus', ‘Candle to bulb', and ‘Telegraph to Telephone'.
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Andrew Jeffrey - Magical School Shows
(Key Stages 1 / 2 / 3 / 4)
Andrew Jeffrey, the ‘mathmagician', looks at maths from a different angle - in the form of magic. He performs in the ‘magic of maths' show in schools which involves plenty of audience interaction and demonstrations.
www.andrewjeffrey.co.uk/schoolshow.asp
Ashdown Forest Centre
(Key Stage 1/2)
Ashdown Forest is steeped in history, rich in wildlife and nature and it's a great learning environment for children. Explorer packs and activities are available for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and the Education Barn can be booked as a base.
www.ashdownforest.org
Bedgebury Forest and Pinetum
School visits can be arranged to Bedgebury Forest and Pinetum and facilities are available all year round. Children can take part in challenging activities that explore the natural environment, animals and habitats.
www.bedgeburypinetum.org.uk
Brighton & Hove Museums
The Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums Department run a variety of science sessions available to schools in the area.
www.virtualmuseum.info
Buchan Country Park
Buchan Country Park is an ideal place for outdoor fieldwork. Visits are individually planned to fit in with National Curriculum requirements. Activities range from pond dipping and environmental games to map reading and habitat mapping.
www.westsussex.gov.uk/buchanpark
Chichester Harbour Conservancy
The Education Service at Chichester Harbour Conservancy aims to help children understand what is special about the harbour. Guided field trips, indoor activities, road shows and other educational resources are available.
www.conservancy.co.uk/learn
Commonwork Land Trust
(Key Stages 1 / 2 / 3 / 4)
Based on an organic farm in the Kent countryside, Commonwork provides an education programme to encourage learning in the natural environment. Each programme offers a visit to their organic dairy farm.
www.commonwork.org
Future Blogs
Future Blogs, headed by the Royal Society of Chemistry, is an online private and safe place for school pupil mentees interested in a future in Chemistry. It is a peer-focused e-mentoring service which aims to better prepare Year 9-13 students for university life and a career in Chemistry.
www.futureblogs.org
GEOSET
(Key Stage 1 - Year 13)
The Global Educational Outreach (GEO) initiative uses new technology to provide outstanding Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) teaching material.
www.geoset.info
Go For SET
(Key Stage 3)
Go4SET provides students with the opportunity of working with and being mentored by Scientists, Engineers and Technologists chosen from the complete spectrum of SET disciplines.
www.go4set.org.uk
Goodwood Home Farm
(Key Stage 1 - Year 13)
The Goodwood Estate offers a rich variety of sites and experiences and can provide an enjoyable and educational day out. Students can visit the organic home farm or go on forestry tours or nature trails.
www.goodwood.co.uk
GreenPower - Electric car racing
(Key Stages 3/4 and Years 12/13)
Greenpower provides electric car racing for schools and colleges from around the UK. Greenpower aims to promote engineering and technology as careers, to students aged 10 to 18.
www.greenpower.co.uk
GSK Education
GlaxoSmithKlein supports a range of educational programmes. Its aim is to help students develop an understanding of science issues in everyday life and inspire them to take up careers in science. Students can participate in science demonstrations and hands-on events.
www.gsk.com/education
Ian B. Dunne - The Science Storyteller
(Key Stages 1 / 2 / 3 / 4)
Ian B. Dunne brings enthusiasm, excitement and most of all - fun into physics, cheers into chemistry and a buzz to biology with his exciting school science days and science shows.
www.ianbdunne.co.uk
Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge for Schools
(All Key Stages)
Harnessing the excitement and expectation of a Grand Prix race, the Challenge enables participating schools to involve students at most ability levels. It will encourage them to discover what fun a basic knowledge and understanding of mathematics can be, not to mention an asset for life!
www.mathschallenge.co.uk
James Dyson Foundation
(All Key Stages)
The James Dyson Foundation website makes free resources available for schools and universities which encourage young people to think differently, make mistakes and invent.
www.jamesdysonfoundation.com
NRICH
(All Key Stages)
NRICH is a team of qualified teachers who are also practitioners in RICH mathematical thinking. This unique blend means that NRICH is ideally placed to offer advice and support to both teachers and learners of mathematics.
nrich.maths.org
Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve
(All Key Stages)
As one of the last unspoilt areas of the Sussex coastline, Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve offers various sites ideal for curriculum-related field teaching for all Key Stages. Guided trips are available throughout the year.
www.westsussex.gov.uk/paghamharbour
Planet Science
(Key Stages 1 / 2 / 3 / 4)
Planet Science is a website that provides a multitude of free and fun Science resources for young people, teachers and parents.
www.planet-science.com
Plumpton College Schools Centre
(Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4)
Plumpton College offers a range of on-site visits that focus on the needs of the National Curriculum for groups ranging from Foundation stage to Key Stage 4. Visits range from campus tours to half or full-day field trips and activities with food, farming and environmental themes can be tailor-made to suit specific needs.
www.plumpton.ac.uk
Primary Engineer
(All Key Stages)
Primary Engineer provide Leaders Awards for STEM Subjects for ages 5-19
www.leadersaward.com
Rocket Gardens - Dig for the Future
(All Key Stages)
Reasonably priced Starter Garden kits available to get children growing their own fruit and vegetables.
www.rocketgardens.co.uk/dig-for-their-future.asp
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Wakehurst Place
(Key Stages 1/2/3/4 and years 12/13)
Wakehurst Place in the High Weald of Sussex is an outstanding botanic garden and conservation area, managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. At Wakehurst Place, there is great emphasis on conservation with the Millennium Seed Bank - the world's most ambitious conservation project. Self-guided visits, assisted visits and special activity programmes are available.
www.kew.org/education
RSPCA
The RSPCA Education mission statement is ‘to support teachers to develop responsible, caring, informed and active citizens'. The RSPCA offers free resources to schools and provides schemes of work for teachers created by Education advisers who were once teachers themselves. Education advisers can come into the classroom and support teachers to deliver a topic of their choice.
www.rspca.org.uk
RSPB Pulborough Brooks - Educational Visits
(All Key Stages)
The RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve is a restored wetland site managed for the conservation of wintering wildfowl, breeding birds and other wildlife. Set in Arun Valley it also contains grassland, woodland, hedgerows and scrub which are important for many species of birds, small mammals, insects and plants.
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/p/pulboroughbrooks
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
(Key Stages 1/2/3/4 - Year 13)
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is an internationally important wildlife site designated as a Special Protection Area and Special Area of Conservation by the European Union as part of their Natura 2000 network. Visits are appropriate for Key Stages 1-4 and A-level and there is a children's pack available for Key Stage 2.
www.wildrye.info/reserve/schools
SEPNET (South East Physics Network)
SEPNETS's objective is to advance and protect Physics as a strategically important subject for the UK economy and its science base and reaches out to groups of students in novel and exciting ways.
www.sepnet.ac.uk
Seven Sisters Country Park
The Sussex Wildlife Trust, in partnership with the SDJC and with kind permission of the Forestry Commission, employs a team of leaders to run educational visits to Seven Sisters Country Park. There are opportunities for fieldwork in a variety of habitats.
www.sevensisters.org.uk
Science Learning Centre South East
The Science Learning Centre South East is a catalyst for creating stimulating and relevant science education. They provide quality professional development for science teachers and technicians in primary, secondary and further education.
www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk
South Downs Planetarium - Presentations for Schools
(Key Stages 1/2/3/4)
The effective teaching of astronomy involves viewing the night sky, but to take an entire group of students ‘star-gazing' is impractical for many reasons. A planetarium solves this problem by bringing the night sky to students. It makes clear many of the basic aspects of astronomy and space science in an exciting and effective way.
www.southdowns.org.uk/sdpt
Space School UK
(Key Stage 4 and Years 12 / 13)
Space School UK is an activity that provides a residential school for students who have a strong interest in astronomy, space science and technology. The event includes lectures, practical activities and the chance to meet space scientists and academics.
www.spaceschooluk.org
Space4Schools
(All Key Stages)
Space4Schools offer varied programmes, covering subjects ranging from space travel to the exploration of our Solar System. These immersive educational packages have direct links to the National Curriculum.
www.space4schools.co.uk
Sussex Wildlife Trust
The Sussex Wildlife Trust is the major Conservation charity for Sussex (West, East and Brighton and Hove) The Trust has a large environmental education department teaching over 19,000 children per year and has three main centres for school visits: Woods Mill, Henfield; Seven Sisters Country Park, near Seaford; and Ashdown Forest Centre, Forest Row.
www.sussexwt.org.uk
The Acclaim Project - Exploring the lives of leading scientists
(Key Stage 4)
The Acclaim Project supports teaching and learning of scientific enquiry and promotes the achievements of scientists and their research. There are also interesting curriculum packs for sale.
www.acclaimscientists.org.uk
The Enigma Schools Project
(Key Stage 2 +)
The project is aimed at inspiring students through codes and code breaking. There are a range of resources and ideas on how to inspire, motivate and demonstrate the practical applications of mathematics using code and ciphers in the classroom either before or following an Enigma Project visit.
mmp.maths.org/projects/enigma.html
The Formula 1 Technology Challenge
(Key Stages 3 / 4 and Year 12)
The main objective of the Formula 1 Technology Challenge is to help change perceptions of engineering, science and technology by creating a fun and exciting learning environment for young people to develop an informed view about careers in engineering, Formula One, science, marketing and technology.
www.f1inschools.co.uk
The Industrial Trust
(Key Stages 2/3/4)
The Industrial Trust is a rapidly growing charity with a mission to enthuse and educate young people of all abilities - both directly and through others - to aspire to careers in wealth creation and to equip them with the skills they need for those careers.
www.industrialtrust.org.uk
The Kids in Space Show
(Key Stages 1 / 2)
This science show is a theatrical performance that uses colourful props and lively demonstrations to bring the subject of ‘space' alive. They cater for pupils at schools and at science festivals across the UK.
www.spacefund.co.uk
The Observatory Science Centre - Outreach Programme
(Key Stages 1/2/3)
The Observatory Science Centre has been aiming towards taking exhibits, workshops and science shows out to the community and directly into schools, especially those schools that face difficulties in bringing students for days out.
www.the-observatory.org/outreach.htm
Vega Science Trust
The Vega Science Trust provides a selection of resources that can be used in schools including short instructional films, science videos, bucky ball workshops, states of matter workshops and downloadable work sheets.
Vega.org.uk
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust - Educational Visits
(Key Stages 1/2/3/4 and Year 12)
WWT centres are great places for children and adults to interact with all things wet and wild and become connected to nature in the WWT ‘WISE UP to Wetlands' schools programme.
www.wwt.org.uk/visit/arundel
Working With Others
Working With Others is a personalised support and training programme for schools that helps learning, pupil behaviour, class relationships and how pupil groups are used in the curriculum. They can help motivate pupils and re-energise teachers.
www.workingwithothers.org
Regional and Local Organisations supporting the STEM Agenda
SEEDA
Within the South East the lead organisation responsible for economic development is SEEDA. A key regional objective is to ensure that businesses, universities and the public sector can recruit and retain the skilled STEM disciplines they need, currently and in the future, to help drive forward the regional knowledge economy.
www.seeda.co.uk
Aimhigher Sussex
Aimhigher is a national organisation that aims to target those students from less privileged backgrounds with the motivation to go to university and get better grades. The organisation is split up into counties across the UK and the local one for Sussex is Aimhigher Sussex. Aimhigher Sussex has access to national and regional STEM projects, either run directly through Aimhigher or as partner projects.
www.aimhighersussex.org
Education Business Partnerships
Education Business Partnership links businesses to schools and colleges enabling them to work together more effectively and provide young people with a range of work-related learning activities.
Sussex Learning Network
The Sussex Learning Network (SLN) is a partnership of universities, colleges, training providers and guidance agencies who together want to transform the opportunities for vocational learners in Sussex. Their aim is to offer learners the chance to benefit from higher education wherever they live or work in Sussex. This means employees, employers, professionals working in higher or further education or individuals thinking about developing or changing their career.
www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk
National Organisations and Professional Bodies in STEM
The Association for Science Education (ASE)
www.ase.org.uk
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
www.cibse.org
Engineering and Technologies Board (ETB)
www.etechb.co.uk
Institute of Biology
www.iob.org
Institution of Civil Engineers
www.ice.org.uk
Institution of Engineering and Technology
www.theiet.org
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
www.ima.org.uk
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
www.imeche.org
Institute of Physics
www.iop.org
The Mathematical Association
http://www.m-a.org.uk
National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics
www.ncetm.org.uk
Royal Aeronautical Society
www.raes.org.uk
Royal Society of Chemistry
www.rsc.org
SEMTA - The Sector Skills Council
www.semta.org.uk
STEMNET
www.stemnet.org.uk
