School Workshops

In this exciting new workshop, we look at the science of sound, specially crafted for students in Years 3 and 4. This interactive and immersive experience combines the excitement of experimentation with the joy of music-making, all while aligning with key learning objectives in the Year 4 curriculum.

The heart of the workshop lies in hands-on exploration as students delve into a series of captivating experiments with boomwhackers. Through these experiments, participants uncover the fundamental principles behind sound production, delving into concepts such as vibrations, volume, and pitch.

Students are introduced to the concept of buildings that adapt to their environment, before being challenged to build either an earthquake or hurricane resistant tower. 

A budget is given, with each material having a different price, so teams of young people must use their funds carefully to build the tallest tower, which is then tested with a fan (hurricane) or vibration plate (earthquake) to see whether it can withstand the environment.

A series of fun games and challenges will demonstrate to young people the soft skills they excel in, and how they can practice these to use in their future lives. 

Particularly focusing on soft skills such as communication, teamwork and logic, each game will demonstrate to the young people how important these skills are in future learning and employment opportunities.

A fun series of engineering challenges where young people must build bridges of varying styles and strengths.

They will use a set quantity of materials, including constructing a wooden keystone bridge and bridges of their own designs using Lego. 

In addition to developing their practical skills, students will use soft skills such as teamwork, problem solving, creativity and listening as they learn about different types of bridges around the world.

A quiz using audience response system 'Qwizdom' to give a competitive flair. 

Students work in teams to establish the correct answer and earn enough points to be the winner on a range of topics linked to STEM. 

Questions include short puzzles or calculations, facts and figures, observation questions or general knowledge. 

In addition, Qwizdom can be used to evaluate students' understanding of a topic, and bespoke quizzes can be written to suit individual clients' requirements.

Young people are introduced to modern uses of robotics before they are tasked with using a Sphero robot to rescue a person who has been injured in a disaster zone. 

They must code their Sphero to avoid the obstacles and navigate to the casualty, before sounding the alarm and rushing back to alert rescuers.

The terms power, watts, energy, joules and calories are explored and put into context using rowing machines to demonstrate the differences and contextualise how much this really is. 

Young people are then challenged to work in a team to row as far as possible, generating as much electrical energy as possible. This is then given to the young people in the form of food, so that they can visualise the link between work done and calories.

Students learn about codes, what they are and their use in society, before attempting to crack a series of codes, each one requiring a different technique to the last. 

Each code gives a clue to unlocking the next, and young people will need to use a number of skills to enable their team to achieve the final task. Finally, they learn about codebreaking in the modern world and the careers linked to these.

This session uses four different pieces of equipment (kick speed test, football shoot out, the Batak board and rowing machines) to allow students to see the link between STEM and the world of sports. 

Young people will have time to explore the activities, with high scores for the class recorded, before learning about different careers within in the sport industry linking to each of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

Miniature electric cars are built to demonstrate some of the principles of gears, before the young people then use the cars to understand the relationship between voltage input and distance travelled. 

They then use this knowledge to perform a series of tests to draw up a graph, and a line of best fit if applicable, with the intention of getting their team's car to stop closest to a specified distance.