Kim Biddulph, Engagement Projects Manager from Engineering UK, chats to STEM Community Manager Tim Bradbury about their Climate Schools programme. This aims to help students aged 11-14 explore solutions to climate change and features free lesson plans, activities and resources.

This episode is a takeover from the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) discussing classroom management in primary and secondary computing settings for ECTs and ITTs.

Teachers Adam Gibson and Martin Sexton are joined by Daljit Shokur and Niall Martin from Teach First and Tracy Chamberlain from NCCE to discuss challenges, solutions and ideas covering everything from missing or damaged equipment to engaging young people in computing.

Every young person deserves a great science education, empowering them to explore, question, and understand the natural world. It cultivates critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity, essential for innovation and decision-making, and prepares them to tackle global challenges, from climate change to healthcare, ensuring a brighter, more sustainable future.

In this episode we are joined by Mark Langley, Chris Catto and Tracey Baxter to discuss what the benchmarks are, why and how to implement them in your educational setting. https://www.stem.org.uk/science-leadership-benchmarkshttps://community.stem.org.uk/

Fab actionable content for primary and secondary teachers!

STEM Learning's regional network lead Ajay Sharman is joined by Abbie Sealey, apprentice clinical physiologist in neurophysiology at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust - both proud STEM Ambassadors. Abbie discusses how STEM Ambassadors visiting her school inspired her to follow a STEM career path and chats about her apprenticeship journey so far. There's also a STEM Community summary including our new CPD Bites plus featured resources. 0.00 Intro

0.38-14.57 Ajay and Abbie

15.00-17.45 STEM Community summary

Fab actionable content for primary and secondary teachers!

The first half provides tips for incorporating books to help primary children learn online safety. Primary teacher Joanne Low joins Sarah Zaman, national cybersecurity primary specialist at the NCCE, to discuss strategies and resources alongside Steve Castle, Marketing & Communications Lead at STEM Learning.

Then, STEM Learning's mathematics subject specialist Michael Anderson chats to Leanne Mason, Science PGCE Lead at University of York, and secondary teacher Paula Kelly to provide tips for supporting biology teachers with maths content.

0.00-0.47 Intro

0.48-15.00 Using books to teach primary children online safety

15.20-25.28 Using maths to support biology teachers

25.29-27.57 Summary including new, themed online CPD videos on STEM Community, Explorify for Inclusion and resources linked to key awareness days

Meganne Christian, astronaut with the European Space Agency, chats to our enrichment programme manager Alex Brown about her amazing career. Also, our STEM enrichment lead Tom Lyons provides ideas on how teachers can use Mars Day on 5 March to inspire young people - one featuring Meganne!

Our education lead for mathematics Michael Anderson joins Dr Laura Bonnett, proud STEM Ambassador and senior lecturer in medical statistics at University of Liverpool, to provide ideas and insight around inspiring young people to love numbers. Digressions include the benefits of learning to code at primary, and penguin poo... 

Tanya Shields is joined by two special guests from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) - Katie Luxton and Grace Coker - to discuss the improving primary science guidance report and how teachers can use its recommendations to make a real impact in the classroom.