Globally Responsible Careers competition
The Science4Society Week is running a competition in collaboration with the Association for Science Education to promote globally responsible careers. The entry can be in any form, such as a poster, a film, a presentation or an essay, but it needs to address the following questions:
 
·         What job do you want to do? What are your career aspirations?
·         How might this job impact on the environment?
·         What are the scientific issues involved?
·         How could you help to make this job more globally responsible?

Entrants must be within the age categories (7-11, 12-14 and 15-18) and entries from schools, science clubs, youth groups and other organisations are welcome. The competition closes on 1 March.

Additional information can be found in this flyer and if you would like to discuss the the entry formats please email Jan Maskell.
 

The Grand Challenges
The Government has set out four Grand Challenges, aimed at putting the UK at the forefront of future industry. Specifically, challenges around artificial intelligence, an aging society, clean growth and future mobility.

Each challenge focuses on a real-world problem and STEM Learning has a number of resources around these challenges which you can use when engaging with schools to inspire young people into STEM.

STEM Learning has put together resource collections to support teachers to engage students in thinking about these challenges.

A project based on one of these Grand Challenges may be prefect for a CREST award.

British Science Week 8-17th March
The theme for this year's British Science Week is 'Journeys'. Resource packs are available here. Many of the activities are CREST accredited, so if you enjoyed using them, why not think about running a CREST Award? CREST Awards give students real-life experience of being a scientist while getting introduced to STEM project work. They are nationally accredited and are a fun, yet educational way to get your children involved in STEM subjects. You can find out more information here,

If you missed out on funding for your science event, the British Science Association has a useful information here about other possible sources of funding.

Royal Society grants
You could receive up to £3,000 to run an investigative STEM project in your classroom through the Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme. Projects are run in partnership with a STEM professional and the next round of funding opens in February. To find out more, including information about how to develop your STEM partnership and the application process, please visit the Royal Society’s website or contact the Education Outreach team.

 

 

Ofsted consultation
If you would like to take part in the consultation on the new Ofsted framework please follow this link.