SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

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Cover all the statutory requirements of Year 4 electricity by experimenting with components and constructing circuits. Children join hands to become a human circuit and use their new electrical knowledge to build burglar alarms and games. Finish off by making sparks fly with the Van de Graaff generator!

A stomach churning interactive demonstration of the journey of your lunch through the digestive system. Children get a chance to investigate enzymes and learn about how food is broken down. We look at food to start a discussion on balanced diet which can be extended in class and children get to meet Bonapart!

Children know that solids are solid and liquids flow but what do gases do? Find out how amazing air really is by using it to make things fly, float and sing. Pupils learn about the Bernoulli effect and air pressure through demonstrations and hands-on activities. A super-cool dry ice demonstration is an optional add-on that really brings gases to life.

Use a range of tests to classify rock samples, make fossils and learn about the rock cycle using chocolate! This session can also include an environmental aspect with an investigation of acid rain. Covers all areas of Year 3 Rocks curriculum.

Children can look at smart materials, non-Newtonian fluids and polymers. We make slime and children investigate properties such as the stretchiness.

What makes our planet so unique? Discover the big bang theory and compare the other planets in our solar system to planet Earth. Uncover the mystery of the moon’s craters. Investigate star constellations and astronomy. Could we live on another planet?

What is light and where does it come from?  Explore the rainbow of light using diffraction glasses, take a closer look at lasers find out if light can bend, discover lightning bolts and play in the dark with shadow puppets.

Students explore the spectrum of light using diffraction glasses. Each child will make their own coloured spinning disc and uncover the true colour of black through chromatography.

An extended version of year 3 / 4 Shockingly Awesome with more emphasis on investigating the effects of changes to circuits and using circuit diagrams. Build a light up card and try out the Van de Graaff generator.

Children experiment with different types of forces, such as air pressure, gravity and friction (and as an option - magnetism). They will investigate the forces needed to separate and lift items and the forces needed to launch rockets into space, make a hydraulic lift andmeasure forces with Newton meters.

This is where chemistry starts to get real! Use pipettes and test tubes to learn about chemical changes with a variety of wonderful colours.

Witness a solid transform into a gas! Understand how dry ice is used in special effects, when we create our own spooky scene. Blow up a balloon without blowing in air.

This links to evolution and inheritance, My identity investigates what makes us unique. DNA, fingerprints, our genes, the features that we can see and those that we can’t. Extract real DNA from strawberries.

Learn about air resistance, friction and gravity by making rockets and parachutes. Children build the rockets, parachutes and cars from scratch, thinking about aerodynamics and power-to-weight ratios, then blast off!

Start off with a gooey interactive ‘surgery’ demonstration to find out about major organs of the human body. We’ll dissect real hearts, with a chance for children to see and touch the valves and blood vessels. Then investigate lung capacity and heart rate.

Want to be the next Heston Blumenthal? Experience the science of food and make yummy tongue tingling sherbet. See the science of candy floss and get to taste test the final product, then wash it down with your homemade lemonade – made the scientific way!

Be amazed at the magic that chemistry can bring. Use colour changing liquids from the sorting goblet to sort witches and wizards, use the engorgio spell to blow up a balloon and witness the basilisk come to life in fire!

It’s important to have some ‘me’ time. Become a cosmetic scientist and discover the chemical reactions of bath bombs, lip balm and perfume. Make your own to take home and enjoy!

Create a crime scene in your school hall! Your young forensics scientists will need to investigate fingerprints, DNA, fibres, footprints and more to match the suspects to the clues. Suitable for Key Stage 2 only.