Abingdon School in Partnership has recently launched ‘Workshops in a Box’. The initiative is the brainchild of Abingdon Chemistry teacher, Richard Fisher, and enables teachers from local primary schools to book and borrow a box of specialist science apparatus along with activities to assist them to confidently deliver science lessons in their own settings, and at their own pace.

He says: “Over the last decade, Abingdon Science Partnership has developed a number of hands-on workshops for primary aged children, currently offering three sessions each week. In addition, our staff are also happy to run these workshops within local partnership primary schools. Nevertheless, we are conscious that the onsite workshops get booked up quickly and timetabling commitments can make it challenging for our staff to regularly go into other school settings. A solution to this is the Workshop in a Box.

“There are seven boxes which can be booked. Current workshop topics for Year 3 and 4 pupils cover Physics themes on magnets, electricity, sound, forces, and light; and Chemistry themes on states of matter and rocks and fossils. It is hoped the initiative will continue to develop in time and more workshops become available.

“Workshop in a Box helps to ensure as many of our local schools have access to our science resources at a time which suits them.”

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