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Discover Gigantic Jupiter this Half Term

Take a ‘pioneering’ visit to the largest gas giant this half term thanks to the Mission Commanders at the award-winning National Space Centre.

Did you know that the gas giant Jupiter has a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined?

Head along to the National Space Centre from 27 May to 04 June and join their Discovery team to find...

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Meet SPOKE: An App Improving GenZ Mental Health Through Music

  • SPOKE is a new mental health app combining AI, science, music and lyricism to improve mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The deeply personalised app helps listeners with everything from sleep to heartbreak, confidence and focus.
  • Musicians, voice artists and composers are trained by a team of clinical psychologists, therapists and neuroscientists. Each
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New science-based game show for kids

Get Set Galactic is an entertaining new, science-based game show in which two teams of young scientists visit S.T.A.R.S (Space Technology & Research Station) to take on a meteoric mission of fun challenges and win out-of-this-world prizes.

This immersive, physical gameshow explores science themes from gravity and the Solar System to pollination, energy, and much more.

Each week...

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Science curriculum in schools improving despite pandemic pressures

Ofsted has today published the first in a new series of reports looking at how subjects are taught in England’s schools .

Today’s report looks at science education and draws on evidence from a sample of primary and secondary schools, gathered as part of routine inspections.

Read the ‘Finding the optimum: the science subject report’ .

Inspectors found that science curriculums...

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Top tips on ways parents can make space more interesting

With World Space Week shining a light on the wonders of the universe, Dan Green, editor of The Week Junior Science+Nature , provides parents with some tips on ways they can make space more interesting.

Dan Green

  • Work together with your child to create cool space rockets and robot rovers using LEGO or recycled materials. Copy NASA’s Artemis rockets or Perseverance rovers, or get
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Tim Peake and Maggie Aderin-Pocock challenge young people to make future space travel more environmentally friendly in special issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature

The UK space stars are inspiring children to have "big, crazy dreams" in the space special issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature's first guest-edited edition, published to mark World Space Week 2022, between 4-10 October, during which thousands of participants from over 90 countries will be celebrating ‘Space and Sustainability’.

The Week Junior Science+Nature's World Space Week...

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Science Museum opens major Science Fiction exhibition

EXPLORE NEW WORLDS IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM’S BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION – SCIENCE FICTION – OPENING ON 6 OCTOBER

  • A month today the Science Museum will open the most ambitious exhibition it’s ever staged: Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination , placing visitors at the heart of an interactive science fiction story;
  • Through over 70 objects visitors will uncover
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GAMING EXTRAVAGANZA POWER UP RETURNS TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM

  • This Easter, popular gaming event Power UP returns to the Science Museum for its fifth incarnation;
  • Gamers will discover how video games have evolved and can get hands-on with Mario Kart , Pac-Man , Guitar Hero and other arcade classics;
  • Adult-only evening sessions also announced.

Power UP Saturday 2 – Tuesday 19 April 2022 Ticketed, prices from £8...

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Salary boosts for new maths, science and computing teachers

Salary boosts for new maths, physics, chemistry and computing teachers

From: Department for Education and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

Teachers in the early years of their careers will be able to get a salary boost of up to £3,000 tax-free to teach maths, physics, chemistry and computing.

This will support recruitment and retention of specialist teachers in these subjects and...

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Skittles rainbow experiment

Skittles rainbow experiment

My four year old is a bit obsessed with rainbows recently, I think it started with us supporting the NHS by filling our windows with pictures of rainbows at the start of the pandemic! This skittles activity is a great, quick activity that will entertain them and teach them a bit about science at the same time.

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