Inventors & Makers School Workshop
We can visit your school in: All UK Regions
Brand new British Science Week workshops for EYFS-KS2 focusing on Energy & the Environment and linking to the 2025 theme Change & Adapt.
Inventors & Makers have a collection of brand new workshops for British Science Week 2025 for using with N-Y6. The workshops link to the 2025 theme of Change & Adapt by focusing on the environment and our need to change and adapt our practices to protect our planet. We do this in KS1 and KS2 through practical engineering-based activities linking to sustainable energy production like solar and wind, and in EYFS through things we can do ourselves every day to look after our world. These workshops are available in-person and also via our award-winning and low cost virtual workshops.
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Our workshops for KS1 and KS2 are linked to many areas of the Design & Technology curriculum, including engineering structures, mechanisms and the design process itself. We'll help your pupils understand the importance of DT to the world around us and how they can design, invent, engineer and build themselves.
Our Little STEAMers workshops and classes for EYFS cover a range of topics linked to D&T on engineering and building.
Our workshops for KS2 link to several areas of the ICT as well as the Design & Technology curriculum.
Workshops can cover Video Game Design, thinking about systems and designing for a user, as well as Coding & Robotics designing moon landers, pedometers and games.
We teach through the Engineering Superpowers: problem solving, communication, collaboration and creative thinking!
All of our workshops use these skills and encourage children to become more resilient and confident in their own ideals and abilities.
It's impossible to be an engineer without learning to overcome failure and develop a growth mindset. We focus on many other aspects including teamwork, cooperation as part of our workshops.
We produce dedicated KS1 and KS2 workshops for British Science Week every year and our full range of workshops covers a variety of topics including aviation and rollercoasters, linking closely to the National Curriculum targets.
Little STEAMers classes and workshops for EYFS cover a range of physics topics in an age-appropriate way such as ramps, planes and even gravity!
Our Little STEAMers classes and workshops for EYFS cover chemistry topics (e.g. chemical reactions, properties, states of mater, reactions) in an age-appropriate way ask for more details. We demonstrate then encourage the children to have a go.
Our Little STEAMers classes and workshops for EYFS cover biology topics (e.g. the human body, plants, under the sea, and animals) in an age-appropriate way.
Yes, we are experienced teachers who are familiar with teaching a range of individual needs.
Laura Cross set up Inventors & Makers in 2019 with a mission to help prepare today's children for tomorrow's world.
She originally trained as a lawyer and worked in the city for a few years before finding her true calling in education and teaching in some of London's Outstanding primary schools,
However, it was during her time leading curriculum design at a San Francisco education technology company that she started to think about the world of work that lies ahead for our children.
"We don't know what the jobs of the future will be, but we do know that our children will need to be adaptable, flexible and creative problem solvers."
Susie McAuley joined the company in early 2022 as lead teacher, delivering after-school clubs and workshops to schools in person and contributing to development of virtual clubs, classes and workshops.
Susie has been teaching for more than 30 years in schools in the UK and all over the world. She has been a computing lead and STEM coordinator as well as a class teacher so she knows exactly how to deliver what teachers are looking for.
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