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Science Oxford – year in review and hope for 2021
Wednesday 13th January 2021
What a year! 2020 started with our programmes in full swing – our new Science Oxford Centre was booked with school visits until July, our public family days were continually sold out and the outreach team were busy running activities in local schools. As with many other organisations across the country, we had to suspend […]
Branching out: celebrating National Tree Week at the Science Oxford Centre
Tuesday 24th November 2020
Planting trees seems more important than ever under the current circumstances – a chance to create positive change. This year we have been funded by the Tree Council Branching Out Fund to plant 25 trees in the 15-acre woodland surrounding our Science Oxford Centre in Headington. These will be dug in by a group of […]
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 […]
Celebrating 30 years of science magic
Tuesday 15th September 2020
This October we mark the 30-year anniversary of CuriOXity, our very first science centre, which opened to the public in the Old Fire Station, George Street in 1990. To celebrate three decades of science magic, families are invited to join us for a special Family Open Day at the Science Oxford Centre on Saturday 3rd October. […]
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 […]
Science Oxford contest challenges children to experiment
Tuesday 28th July 2020
Big Science Event at Home winners in the Oxford Mail
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 […]