1. Teaching resources – Our free teaching resources for primary and secondary aim to enhance teaching and bring students’ learning to life. The resources are designed to support the delivery of key topics within design and technology, maths and science. They provide practical activity ideas that could be used as one-off activities or linked with other areas of the curriculum and are all fully editable so you can tailor them to your students’ or school’s needs.

2. Faraday Challenge Days – An annual competition of STEM activity days with a real-world challenge for pupils aged 12-13 years. We also offer printable resources and guidance for schools to run their own Challenge, choosing a time and theme that suits their students.

3. FIRST® LEGO® League – We deliver hands-on STEM experiences for children aged 4-16 years through our three FIRST® LEGO® League divisions across the UK and Ireland.

4. Volunteers at your school – Our Education Volunteers can be invited to bring real-life experience to your engineering related STEM activities, such as adding context to lessons in the classroom, enhancing after school clubs and youth organisation groups, and providing engineering career expertise at career events.

5. Visual aids and certificates – Our visual aids bring engineering to life in your classroom or home learning space, with posters for both primary and secondary covering a range of topics and primary certificates for teachers to award to their star pupils. With free hard copies and PDF downloads available, there’s something for everyone!

6. Colouring book – These fun downloadable colouring sheets aimed at primary and produced by The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leeds and the Leeds College of Art showcase the breadth and importance of engineering careers and roles in our everyday lives.

7. Primary adventure magazine: Zoom to the Moon – Zoom is a little alien who’s got lost and ended up on Earth. He needs students’ help to build a spaceship to get him home. Students must think like an engineer to work their way through the magazine deciding on the best use of materials, fuel and communication methods for their space rocket to get Zoom back where he belongs. Join us on this exciting adventure and find out about a range of energising careers on the way to inspire your students and open their minds to a whole new universe of engineering jobs in Space!

8. DIY STEM Experiment videos – We are working with STEM ambassadors, IET Education Officers, teachers and parents to bring you a range of videos that can be watched at home or in school showing you how to create some fantastic STEM experiments using everyday items!

9. Teacher membership – At just £30 per year we offer a bespoke educational package designed specifically to meet teacher’s needs as education professionals.

Speakers for Schools has partnered with The HG Foundation to deliver a programme of high-impact interventions for young people in state secondary schools to encourage them to consider a career in the technology sector.
  

We’d like to offer your school the chance to participate in our ‘IntoTech’ programme which, in the pilot year, will give students in Years 10 and 11 the opportunity to experience the tech sector through inspirational talks, employer-led insight days, and work experience.

Participation in this programme is fully funded, so there is no cost to the students or the school. In return, we ask you to support the evaluation process by providing all important feedback from students and supporting staff.  

If you’d like to find out more information about our IntoTech Programme and how to get involved, please register your interest by completing this form before 5pm on 8 November: https://forms.office.com/e/M50jrQqqcx  

The Academy at Childbase Partnership are dedicated to transforming the future through education and our vision is to deliver exceptional teaching and learning experiences that empower apprentices to achieve outstanding outcomes through the following apprenticeship programmes:

·                  Level 2 Early Years Practitioner

·                  Level 3 Early Years Educator

·                  Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner

·                  Level 3 Team Leader

·                  Level 5 Operations Manager

·                  Level 3 Business Administrator

·                  Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Further information can be found here: https://childbaseacademy.com/prospectus-2024/#flipbook-2209/1/ 

A condensed version of the traditional three-year degree.

• Two intakes in January or Sept each year.
• This fast- tracked schedule saves money and time.
• Small class sizes, so you don’t get lost in the crowd, around 8 – 10 students.
• A very diverse community with students from over 100 nationalities from Canada to Mauritius.
• Shortlisted for University of the Year – The Sunday Times 2024.

They can attend school careers events, offer engaging, interactive presentations to pupils in years 10 – 13 covering all aspects of university life and arrange bespoke tours of the campus for 6th form students. Please do contact Annette annette.priest@buckingham.ac.uk to arrange a visit to your school.

For further information and to see taster days and webinars please look at their website www.buckingham.ac.uk

Green Careers Week resources

It’s Green Careers Week from the 4th – 9th of November – here are  loads of great resources to help you inspire your students about green careers during the week here 

The Parents’ Guide to Green Careers

This is a 12-month publication highlighting pathways to careers that protect the environment and the important role parents play in guiding their teens to make informed choices about their futures. The guide can be downloaded from this website.

Higher & Degree Vacancy Listing

The latest edition of the Higher & Degree Apprenticeships Vacancy Listing has now launched!

Explore our biggest listing yet, with over 2,300 Higher and Degree apprenticeship vacancies from 75 employers, including the British Army, Morgan Stanley, Ford, British Airways, Nestlé, Coca Cola, NHS and many more!

Download the Higher & Degree listing now!

Schools & Colleges: Planning for National Apprenticeship Week 2025
11th November 2024, 3.30PM
Book your place

Schools and colleges are invited to join this early planning webinar for National Apprenticeship Week 2025. It’s the biggest week in the apprenticeship calendar, and it’s never too early to start thinking about how you can get involved. Join us to hear more about:

The plans for the week
Daily themes
Resources available
Timelines for asset release
Ideas for activities and events

This webinar is suitable for any teachers, careers advisers and educators with an interest in celebrating National Apprenticeship Week.

Get apprenticeship ‘application ready’
21st November 2024, 3.30PM
Book your place

Join us to understand how you can help aspiring apprentices to be ‘application ready’ so that as soon as they see a position they are interested in, they feel equipped to apply quickly.

 Big Assembly

The Big Assembly is a 100% free live assembly broadcast, shown to over 160,000 people across the UK! It’s the place to be to learn all about apprenticeships from various perspectives, including former and current apprentices, employers, parents, education providers, and more. Registration is now open! Register your interest now.