Science Staff Meeting

On Wednesday I ran a staff meeting looking at the House of Science kits mentioned in an earlier post. I wanted to take the staff through a kit, looking and the types of activities it contained and the resources that came with it. The kit supplied for that week was 'Puzzle Box 2' which was good because it focussed on the Nature of Science strand. This is the least understood of the science strands so along with explaining the kit I took the opportunity to unpack the Nature of Science strand and offer a possible framework for investigation based around the science capabilities. The following is a quick presentation highlighting some of my points.




The meeting went really well. The staff were very interested and positive about the kits and we will look to see how we can incorporate them into next years programme. They also found my talk about the nature of Science strand enlightening and I received several positive comments.

Co-Constructing Success Criteria

Staff meeting on Wednesday about co-constructing success criteria. This is something I need to be doing more often. We analysed an article by Anne Davis - 'Using Samples to Co Constructing Criteria for Writing'. I really liked how she set out a framework for doing so. It was clear and structured which made it easy to understand and make sense. I will follow it when applicable.