Teacher-Scientist Partnerships

Bristol Teacher-Scientist Partnership Network

Bristol Network Contact Point:

Dr Nathalie Caplet ncaplet@netscapeonline.co.uk, 0117-982-2052, will welcome your enquiries.

 

There is a new general acceptance that the future economic prosperity of our country depends more than ever on a first class science base... The Clifton Scientific Trust does an absolutely splendid job of developing working partnerships between teachers and scientists and creating links with the world of professional science, technology and engineering. It is these links which will help to generate the spark of interest and enthusiasm which could mean so much for all our futures.

Sir John Harvey-Jones, 1998

 
 

Photograph: See caption Microbiologist and Partnership Facilitator Dr Nathalie Caplet running an "Infectious Science Day" with pupils at her partner school; Elmfield School for Deaf Children, Bristol.

Value: Clifton Scientific Trust believes in the immense, and still largely unrealised, value for pupils of all ages and abilities in the development of long-term, bottom-up, working partnerships between their teachers and professional scientists and engineers working in the world beyond the confines of the school.

Local Community: Because we also believe strongly in the importance of the local community, our first objective is to develop a vibrant exemplar network of partnerships in the City of Bristol catalysing, supporting and interacting with others who are working in to similar ends both nationally and internationally.


Logos of University of Bristol, UWE, and The Post Office Clifton Scientific Trust is working with:

  • City of Bristol Education Authority
  • Bristol Education Action Zone
  • University of Bristol
  • University of the West of England
  • Local Industry

with sponsorship from The Post Office, in building a highly innovative city wide partnership network linking pupils of all ages and abilities and their teachers with scientists and engineers. Many of these schools are in deprived inner city areas.

This links with the City of Bristol Education Authority's own development plan, "Achievement in Bristol" and is welcomed by Richard Riddell, Bristol's Director of Education.

 

Photograph: See caption Bristol Civil engineering Undergraduate Dominic Weeks, Working with Year 10 students at Florence Brown School, Bristol measuring the strength of concrete test beams.

We are continuing to:

  • survey the extent of pre-existing contacts with professional science and engineering in schools of all kinds in and near Bristol;
  • generate widespread interest in Bristol Teacher-Scientist Partnership Network Project within the educational, scientific and industrial communities in Bristol, so that the Trust is receiving unsolicited new applications to participate;
  • establish new teacher-scientist partnership pairs in Bristol schools, ranging from infant to post-16;
  • monitor partnership progress and receive very positive feedback;
  • run "Science for Real" Miniconferences, and also have contributed to the science dimension to the Bristol Summer University which had its pilot last July.

Keep up to date with these and many other developments and activities listed in our Newsletter (request to join our mailing list).


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