April 2008 | STEM Fluency Lab
for the Nuffield Curriculum Centre
This Lab for teachers, artists, scientists and curriculum developers kickstarted the creative thinking for the NCC’s new Key Stage 3 STEM Project.
Five days were spent exploring the connections between science, technology, engineering and maths subject areas and developing prototype resources and approaches to encourage cross-curriculum, pupil-centred learning.
“The PAL Lab gave our writers the confidence and respect to feel comfortable with their own creativity. The challenge is to be yourself in full volume and brightness. Given free rein our young teachers followed the twists and turns of their imagination. This process generated enough ideas, concepts and paradigms to keep us going for another couple of years.”
Cris Edgell, Nuffield Curriculum Centre STEM Project Director
This was also the first of PAL’s Labs of Learning in the STEM curriculum.
Read what Lab Director Ray Mathias has to say about working with PAL.
Lab Director
Ray Mathias
Participants
Becky Aldridge - teacher
Chrys Allen - artist
David Barlex – Director, Nuffield Design & Technology Project
Cathy Bereznicki – Director, PAL Labs in Learning
Peter Campbell – Co-director, Nuffield 21st Century Science Project
Helen Clare - poet
Deborah Colvin - teacher
Roisin Dolan - teacher
Cris Edgell – Director, Nuffield STEM Project
Angela Hall – Director, Nuffield Curriculum Centre
Simon Hall - teacher
Rachel Henocq - teacher
Ceri Howell - teacher
Ian James - teacher
Julie Jordan- Deputy Director SLC, Yorkshire & The Humber
Matt Lambourne - teacher
William McLean – designer
Kathy Pimlott – Lab co-ordinator
Sue Pope – Programme Manager, Mathematics, QCA
Gareth Price – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University
Eugene Skeef - musician
Peter Slade - curriculum adviser, QCA
Donna Trebell - teacher
Jenny Wales – Director of Education for Citizenship, Nuffield Curriculum Centre
Lucia Walker – dancer/movement teacher
Konrad Welz - filmmaker
Visitors
Susan Benn – PAL Founder Artistic Director
Sarah Codrington – Project Manager, Nuffield Curriculum Centre
Philip Freeman – Science Consultant
Simon Gallacher – Head of Education, Wellcome Trust
Thomas Ginner – Director, Centre for School Technology Education, Sweden
Richard Green – Chief Executive, D&T Association
Anthony Hardwicke – School Teacher Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
Pip Huyton – Maths Consultant
Claes Klasander – Lecturer, Centre for School Technology Education, Sweden
Terry O’Dea – Secondary Science Consultant, LB Bexley
Adrian Oldknow - Professor Emeritus, University of Chichester
Michael Reiss – Director, Education, Royal Society
Steve Steward – STEM Project Manager, Nuffield Curriculum Centre
Clare Thomson – Curriculum Support Manager, Institute of Physics
David Tilley – film in education
Mahlete Tsige-Getachew – PAL Trustee
Linton Waters – Maths Consultant
Sarah Williams – Vice Principal, Homewood School
Andrew Wright – Uckfield Community College
Funded by
Nuffield Curriculum Centre
