STEM Workshops for Any Location School Trip
Inventors & Makers
Engage and inspire EYFS-KS2 with STEM with our expert-led, hands-on workshops covering engineering, inventing, coding, and more.Designed to fit in with your curriculum, our self-led workshops strengthen pupils' grasp of core STEM concepts. With everything done for you, our interactive video workshops and resources are all ready for you to do with your own class, on your own schedule, and wherever you are.
- Linked to Your Topics
Choose a workshop theme that suits your planning with links to history, geography and English there's always a workshop you can link to what you're doing in class.
- Improve Student Outcomes
Help students improve attainment in every subject - research shows that taking part in engineering activities improves outcomes across the curriculum.
- Expert Led
Our qualified and experienced primary teachers know how to connect teaching to the curriculum, and deliver workshops that inspire and engage.
- Easy Set Up
We do all the hard work for you! Booking is quick and simple, and prep time and resourcing is minimal.
British Science Week 2025
Inventors & Makers brand new British Science Week 2025 workshops link to the Change & Adapt theme by focusing on engineering and the environment. Their award-winning hands-on workshops are available for N-Y6 either in-person or online anywhere in the country.
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What activities are available during this school workshop?
A variety of self-led virtual workshops are available, each giving pupils the chance to take part in engaging practical activities to design and build using their own ideas.
Workshops include:
- British Science Week 2025: Engineering with Energy & the Environment (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Invention & Design (for KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering & Structures (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering & Machines (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Coding Unplugged (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering with Space & Time (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
-For EYFS and Nurseries we have various other STEAM Theme workshops (e.g. space, dinosaurs, engineering, coding unplugged, life cycles, the weather, water, chemistry etc.)
- We also have Assemblies available in person or online to support your workshop in KS1 and KS2.
Workshops include:
- British Science Week 2025: Engineering with Energy & the Environment (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Invention & Design (for KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering & Structures (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering & Machines (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Coding Unplugged (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
- Engineering with Space & Time (for EY, KS1 & KS2)
-For EYFS and Nurseries we have various other STEAM Theme workshops (e.g. space, dinosaurs, engineering, coding unplugged, life cycles, the weather, water, chemistry etc.)
- We also have Assemblies available in person or online to support your workshop in KS1 and KS2.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Biology School Trip
Plants Animals including humans Everyday materials Living things and habitats Digestive System Life Cycles Minibeasts Habitats Dinosaurs Ecology and environment Underwater Animals and Habitats
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.
Physics School Trip
Earth and space Forces Rollercoasters Aviation and Flight
We produce dedicated KS1 and KS2 workshops for British Science Week every year and our full range of workshops and clubs covers a variety of hands-on applications of physics 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, space and even gravity!
Chemistry School Trip
States of Matter Scientists and inventors Properties and changes of materials Chemical Reactions
Our Little STEAMers classes and workshops for EYFS cover chemistry topics (e.g. chemical reactions, properties of materials, changes of state) in an age-appropriate way.
We cover a wide range of Engineers, Inventors and Innovators in our KS1 & KS2 workshops and assemblies.
PSHE School Trip
Teamwork and resilience
We teach through the Engineering Superpowers: problem solving, communication, collaboration and creative thinking!
All of our workshops and after-school clubs 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.
Design Technology School Trip
Mechanics and engineering
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.
Engineering School Trip
Engineering is our passion and we believe it's a gateway to equipping children for the future job market as well as giving them a creative outlet to express their creativity and ideas.
We teach children about the Engineering Superpowers and help them to build the skills they will need to be successful.
What size groups do we cater for?
You use our product to run your own workshop, so you can have as many students as you like.
How does safeguarding work for online workshops?
The workshops are recorded and available fully on-demand to complete in your own location. Additionally, our staff are fully Safeguarding trained.
What technology/devices/type of internet connection do schools need for an online workshop?
A computer, screen and sound are needed with an internet speed that allows steaming from YouTube.
Each session is designed to last between 60 and 90 minutes including activity time.
Each session is designed to last between 60 and 90 minutes including activity time.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Yes. We are experienced teachers who are familiar with teaching a range of needs, if you let us know we can suggest amendments or adaptations you could make.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Yes. We are experienced teachers who are familiar with teaching a range of needs, if you let us know we can suggest amendments or adaptations you could make.
We have also run workshops in schools with very specific extra needs, contact us to discuss what your requirements are.
Anything else?
We also publish a weekly STEM Hero or 'Inventor of the Week' resource available on Social media or through email (contains material to use in your classroom), focusing on Inventors and Engineers who you might not be familiar with. Sign up at our website. Some of these are featured in our workshops.
Who are Inventors & Makers?
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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