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Science Oxford in your School
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STEM Careers Programme for Secondary Schools

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Family Days (every Saturday)

Visit our Centre for hands-on discovery and play in the Exploration Zone, with access all day to the woodland.

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Winter Holiday Family Days

Visit the Science Oxford Centre for festively fun science during the winter break. Extra Christmas holiday opening days are on 28th and 29th December, come and work off those festive treats!

 

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Become a nature detective

If you come to a Family Day or Club at the Centre, you can explore our 15 acres of woodland too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and spot the wildlife! Here’s a short film to find out what our adventurers had to say…

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School visits to our Centre

Visit the Science Oxford Centre with your school, with sessions in the Exploration Zone, interactive workshops and activities including a guided woodland walk. Book now for the new academic year 2022/3. Listen to teachers, Tom and Alison, share their thoughts.

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Winter Wonders Livestreamed Shows

Join us on 13 December for our Winter Wonders interactive livestreamed shows with presenters from our amazing team. We’ll have a morning show for Key Stage 1 and an afternoon show for Key Stage 2.

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Visiting your primary school

We bring the wonders of science to your school and inspire pupils with our range of interactive shows and workshops

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Joining in the UK’s largest annual tree celebration – National Tree Week 2022

National Tree Week runs from 26 November to 4 December, marking the start of the best period of the year to plant trees. Ignore those photographs of dignitaries planting trees in the middle of a hot summer to mark the opening of a new housing development.
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Celebrating Science Oxford’s Young Scientists of the Year 2022

Committed, determined, hard-working, resilient, talented, enthusiastic, passionate, curious, supportive, encouraging. These are just some of the words teachers used to describe Year 13 students nominated for the 2022 Young Scientists of the Year awards. With attributes like these in our young people, the future of STEM looks bright!
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What do people who work in STEM actually do?

Thanks to Science Oxford, a group of year 10s from local Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire secondary schools who participated in the October half-term STEM Insight Week discovered what working in STEM really entails.

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Primary Schools programme

Our Primary School programme supports STEM teaching and learning across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We run workshops and shows for pupils in your school and you can visit our Science Oxford Centre.

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Secondary Schools programme

Our STEM Careers Programme works with schools and businesses to help students gain the information, knowledge and skills that could springboard them into a STEM career.

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Join up for discounted or free CPD, kit loan, workshops and networking

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