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Wantage Church of England Primary and The Disraeli School win Science Oxford’s Big Science Event 2021
Friday 2nd July 2021
A team of children from Wantage Church of England Primary School Nursery won this year’s Big Science Event for Oxfordshire with their experiment on What makes snow melt faster? and The Disraeli School’s Year 2’s experiment Will a grape turn into a raison? are the 2021 winners of the Buckinghamshire competition. Runners up in the […]
Celebrating the region’s best school scientists
Wednesday 18th November 2020
Every year Science Oxford celebrates outstanding Year 13 science students across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at our Young Scientists of the Year Award. Usually, the event is held amongst the dinosaurs at the Oxford University Natural History Museum and the cutting edge technology at the Bucks New University, but this time round the celebrations took place […]
Results of Thinking, Doing, Talking Science programme now published
Wednesday 11th November 2020
The impact on pupil attainment and attitudes of Science Oxford and Oxford Brookes University’s Thinking, Doing, Talking Science professional development programme for teachers has just been published in the International Journal of Science Education. Thinking, Doing, Talking Science – or TDTS – was developed by Bridget Holligan, Science Oxford’s Director of Education and Engagement, in […]
Science Oxford’s STEM Insight Week goes virtual
Monday 9th November 2020
In October half-term, Science Oxford’s STEM Insight Week gave a group of secondary school students a virtual insight into some of the most cutting-edge biomedical science organisations in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The idea of our STEM Insight Weeks is to give students the opportunity to find out about possible career opportunities as well as introducing […]
Jude Bennett joins our Board of Trustees
Tuesday 13th October 2020
The Oxford Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Jude Bennett to the Board of Trustees. Jude is Headteacher of St Andrew’s Primary in Headington, close to our Science Oxford Centre and Wood Centre for Innovation. Jude says, “I am delighted to be joining the Trust and supporting the invaluable work being undertaken to […]
Science Oxford one of 150 signatures to call for support for UK science centres
Thursday 8th October 2020
Science Oxford is one of 153 signatures from the UK’s STEM community to have signed an open letter to government, including leading lights Professor Brian Cox, astronauts Major Tim Peake and Helen Sharman, Professor Sir Robert Winston, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, Professor Alice Roberts, Professor Jim Al-Khalili and eight Nobel prize winners. The letter, from the […]
Anneliese Dodds MP visits the Science Oxford Centre
Monday 28th September 2020
Anneliese Dodds MP took time out to visit our Science Oxford Centre recently with her daughter for one of our Family Open Days. During the week, the Centre is open for school visits but every other Saturday we welcome families to our Family Open Days, where they can try the hands-on exhibits in the Exploration Zone […]
Science Oxford programmes re-open for schools
Wednesday 9th September 2020
With the start of the new academic year, we are pleased to announce that we are now re-opening all our programmes for schools across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Over the summer we’ve reviewed the opening of the Science Oxford Centre as well as all our activities to ensure that they are COVID-secure and include appropriate precautions […]
OxSource supporting Science Oxford’s STEM Careers Programme
Monday 27th July 2020
We are pleased to say that local recruitment company OxSource is supporting our STEM Careers programme this year. OxSource a young, dynamic Oxford-based technology recruitment agency. Their STEM graduate programme started in January before the effects of Covid-19 were known but it is an added incentive for John Chapman and his team to assist this […]
Winners of the Big Science Event at Home announced!
Monday 20th July 2020
Our panel of science-friendly judges have now selected the winners of Science Oxford’s first Big Science Event at Home competition. We’d like to give a big virtual applaud to our winners brother and sister Leah and Harry Gould (ages 9 and 10) and their guinea pigs, Snowy and Toffee, who investigated “Which maze will […]
Science Oxford’s spring news
Thursday 23rd April 2020
With the temporary closure of our Science Oxford Centre and programmes in March, we said farewell to some members of our amazing Science Oxford team before they went on furlough. We are now operating with a small core team and the last few weeks have been busy as we continue to support local teachers and […]
See the World Differently Bookmark Design Competition for World Book Day
Tuesday 4th February 2020
See the world differently this half term and enter our Family Open Day Bookmark Design Competition for World Book Day! We are looking for colourful and imaginative designs of pairs of eyes to represent animals, insects and creatures of the woodland at Stansfeld Park. Our favourite designs will be printed as bookmarks to celebrate World […]