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Science for Real Miniconferences
Science for Real School Science Miniconferences constitute a major outworking of our vision. Our objective is to enable pupils themselves to take the lead in sharing the outcomes of their own real science explorations-investigations through presentations, demonstrations, debate, drama or any other means. Miniconferences have a human scale, they do not overwhelm the young students, and they are cheap and easy to run. The response has been extremely positive! Building on the experience of our first Science for Real Miniconferences, we know we have an important model and we are planning many more.
Our First Science for Real Miniconference in 1997 involved some thirty Year 9 and Year 10 (age 14-15) pupils from four state schools, two comprehensive schools, one special needs school and one city technology college. The schools involved were St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, St Bernadette Comprehensive School, Florence Brown School and John Cabot City Technology College.
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Anna McGowan, Year 10 pupil from St Mary
Redcliffe and Temple School presenting her work on water
microbiology.|
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John Cabot City Technology College
students enthral the conference with their use of
IT.|
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Dick Berry and his pupils at Florence
Brown School demonstrating their project on the strength of
concrete.At a more recent 1998 Science for Real Miniconference held at British Aerospace in Bristol, pupils from Elmfield School for Deaf Children, Kingsweston School, Lockleaze Comprehensive School and Monks Park Comprehensive School occupied the morning with their own presentations, while the afternoon was taken up with seeing science in practice in the company.
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Pupils from four schools at the 1998
Trust Miniconference at British Aerospace.|
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Public presentation by pupils at Monks
Park Comprehensive School, Bristol.
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