ElevationX Ltd

School Workshops

We can visit your school in: All UK Regions

Why book ElevationX Ltd

ElevationX has a team of staff who each have considerable experience in the education outreach industry. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality workshops by experienced and trusted education communicators from a diverse range of backgrounds. Our exciting, interactive school workshops cover a range of subjects including STEM, science, technology, engineering, maths, motivation, computing, healthy living and careers. We design our educational workshops for all ages and can adapt to suit your age group including KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5.

Our education communicators will deliver your chosen workshop in a fun, age appropriate manner, and can often include additional information to link to the topics you are currently covering with your classes. We aim to provide a fulfilling experience that is both enjoyable and motivating, while also building upon the students' classroom education. We take curriculum learning and bring it to life through practical applications, as well as thinking about the careers it can link to, helping broaden horizons and future development. Our staff will bring all the resources and items needed for the workshop, and all you need to provide is a suitable space and a member of staff to supervise.

During booking we will work with you to design a plan that fits with your school timetable, your students and your requirements; we can design days to feature anything from one staff member working with one class, to multiple staff offering a carousel-style dropdown day.

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What activities are available during this educational workshop?

We offer a wide range of workshops for KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 and 16+. Workshop topics include STEM, Geography, Maths, Engineering, Computing and Healthy Living.

Some of our most popular workshops include:
- Robot Quest, where students are introduced to modern uses of robotics and look at how robots have changed through history and adapted to our needs. They are then tasked with using a Sphero robot to rescue a person who has been injured in a disaster zone.
- Tower Tussle introduces students to the concept of buildings that adapt to their environment, before challenging them to build either an earthquake or hurricane resistant tower according to a specified budget.
- STEM Careers in Sport uses four different pieces of equipment (kick speed test, football shoot out, the Batak board and rowing machines) to allow students to see the link between STEM and the world of sports.
- Power to Drive involves the young people constructing miniature electric cars to demonstrate some of the principles of gears, before they then use the cars to understand the relationship between voltage input and distance travelled.

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

Computing

Robotics Coding

A number of our workshops are based around the computing aspect of STEM, with a heavy leaning towards coding and robots.

For older or more able students, our Robot Quest workshop demonstrates how robotics can be used in real life situations, by tasking students with piloting and coding Sphero robots to rescue a casualty from a makeshift disaster zone. The workshop features soft skills such as problem solving and teamwork - it also gets very competitive!

For younger groups, our Busy Bots workshop tasks young people with completing a series of curriculum linked challenges and tasks using Blue-Bot robots. This not only involves them using their coding skills, but also encourages teamwork, communication, problem solving and listening!

Careers

In all our workshops, we link back to real world careers and explore how young people can use the topics and skills from the classroom in their future jobs and careers.

All workshops include links to the skills builder framework, and specific workshops (such as our Skills Building workshop) use a series of fun challenges and games to focus on these, demonstrating the huge variety and crucial importance of soft skills in the workplace. Particularly focusing on soft skills such as communication, teamwork and logic, each game will demonstrate to the young people how important these skills are in future learning and employment opportunities.

Physics

Forces Fuels and Energy Energy changes and transfers (KS3/4) Forces and motion (KS3/4) Forces (KS3/4) Energy in matter (KS3/4) Balanced forces (KS3/4) Sound Electricity and circuits Light

We have many different workshops that either link directly to physics or which embed physics knowledge into an alternative task.

For example, during our Power to Drive workshop, miniature electric cars are built to demonstrate some of the principles of gears, before the young people then use the cars to understand the relationship between voltage input and distance travelled. They then use this knowledge to perform a series of tests to draw up a graph, and a line of best fit if applicable, with the intention of getting their team's car to stop closest to a specified distance.

In Sounds like Science, we look at the science of sound, specially crafted for students in Years 3 and 4. This interactive and immersive experience combines the excitement of experimentation with the joy of music-making, all while aligning with key learning objectives in the Year 4 curriculum. The heart of the workshop lies in hands-on exploration as students delve into a series of captivating experiments with boomwhackers, uncovering the fundamental principles behind sound production, delving into concepts such as vibrations, volume, and pitch.

During our What's a Watt workshop, the terms power, watts, energy, joules and calories are explored and put into context using rowing machines to demonstrate the differences and contextualise how much this really is. Young people are then challenged to work in a team to row as far as possible, generating as much electrical energy as possible. This is then given to the young people in the form of food, so that they can visualise the link between work done and calories.

Physical Geography

Natural Disasters Environment Earthquakes Plate Tectonics

Our physical geography workshops are among our most popular, being suitable for a wide range of age groups and building in a range or other underlying knowledge to reinforce the classroom learning.

Our hands-on Tower Tussle workshop guides learners through the different requirements of building design, and how buildings can be adapted to different environments. Students are introduced to the concept of earthquake-proof buildings, before being challenged to build either an earthquake or hurricane resistant tower. A budget is given, with each material having a different price, so teams of young people must use their funds carefully to build the tallest tower possible, which is then tested with a fan (hurricane) or vibration plate (earthquake) to see whether it can withstand the environment.

During our Robot Quest workshop, young people are introduced to modern uses of robotics and how robots can be used to help in natural disasters. They are then tasked with using a Sphero robot to rescue a person who has been injured in an earthquake disaster zone. They must code their Sphero to avoid the obstacles and navigate to the casualty, before sounding the alarm and rushing back to alert rescuers.

What size groups do you cater for?

Workshop sessions vary. Get in touch to discuss your needs and we can suggest a workshop or group of workshops to be delivered through a drop down day.

Workshops can be delivered throughout the day, rotating between classes or can be delivered with other workshops to create a full drop down day for a whole year group.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

We're happy to talk to you and suggest workshops that will be appropriate.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

We're happy to talk to you and suggest workshops that will be appropriate.

Anything else?

Many of our workshops can be combined to give students a more in depth and impactful experience, for example, by creating a whole year drop down day. Our team can recommend workshops which complement each other so please get in touch to discuss.

The deliverer will arrive around 7.30am on the day and require parking for a large van. We finish every session with an evaluation form to assess their learning.

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Who are ElevationX Ltd?

ElevationX facilitate enriching and ‘elevating’ experiences for young people in our in-school workshops. We also deliver holiday camps and work with a number of industry partners to deliver educational programmes on their behalf.