Canterbury Primary Science Partnership
We are delighted to announce that our school is to be one of ten primaries in
Canterbury to benefit from a science partnership with The King’s School. King’s
has been awarded a substantial grant of over £20,000 from the Department for
Education to work with ten primary schools and Junior King’s in Canterbury.
The project will include training for our teachers and workshops with pupils.
Science subject leaders in the ten partnership schools will meet to share good
practice as well as have the opportunity to bring classes to the King’s School and
Junior King’s to use their laboratory facilities and apparatus.
As one Head has put it: “The opportunities afforded by this partnership with other
primaries with the benefit of secondary school expertise and facilities will give our
children experiences beyond what we can provide on our own. With the CPSP grant
we can help develop non-specialist primary teachers to be enthused, engaged and
motivated about science so that their pupils can also become enthused, engaged
and motivated. We know that the investigative and thinking skills which children
gain through good science teaching transfer to other subjects.”