Cost 

This SSERC Meet comes at no cost to your setting.  All we ask is that you and your colleagues attend on the day and complete the register and evaluations, in order that we can improve our professional learning offer. 

Funding 

SSERC have a long-standing strategic partnership with the Edina Trust. The Edina Trust are currently supporting all open SSERC Meet activity run by the Early Years and Primary team. The support from the Edina Trust has allowed us to increase the number of items in your resource kit. 

Please tag @EdinaTrust in any social media posts to share the impact their support has had on you, your colleagues and learners through practical STEM activities. 

The Edina Trust also support selected Local Authorities on a rolling 3 year programme.  To find out more, please see https://www.edinatrust.org.uk/science-grant-scheme 

Curriculum for Excellence links:

• Through everyday experiences and play with a variety of toys and other objects, I can recognise simple types of forces and describe their effects. SCN 0-07a
• By investigating forces on toys and other objects, I can predict the effect on the shape or motion of objects. SCN 1-07a
• By exploring the forces exerted by magnets on other magnets and magnetic materials, I can contribute to the design of a game. SCN 1-08a
• I have collaborated in investigations to compare magnetic, electrostatic and gravitational forces and have explored their practical applications. SCN 2-08a
• Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes. SCN 0-15a
• Through exploring properties and sources of materials, I can choose appropriate materials to solve practical challenges. SCN 1-15a
• I explore ways to design and construct models. TCH 0-09a
• I can design and construct models and explain my solutions. TCH 1-09a
• I can extend and enhance my design skills to solve problems and can construct models. TCH 2-09a
• I explore everyday materials in the creation of pictures/models/concepts. TCH 0-10a
• I can recognise a variety of materials and suggest an appropriate material for a specific use. TCH 1-10
• I can recognise basic properties and uses for a variety of materials and can discuss which ones are most suitable for a given task. TCH 2-10a

This is a live, online session on Microsoft Teams. You and your colleagues will join us from your own setting – it is useful for practitioners to take part in the activities together.

A Teams link will be sent in advance to successful applicants, on acceptance of an offer of a place.