Are you passionate about digital learning and keen to influence how professional learning can support schools and settings across Wales. We’re looking for practitioners and digital leaders to join a small focus group with STEM Learning to help shape the Teaching Digital with Confidence (TDC) Wales programme. This group will have a voice in how we can build practitioner confidence and understanding of computing and digital skills including AI, coding, media literacy and computational thinking, to better plan and connect learning across Curriculum for Wales. You don’t need to be an expert in these areas to take part, just bring your teaching experience, curiosity and commitment to supporting learners. Your perspective is valuable, whatever your starting point. This work aims to build practitioner confidence and understanding of computing and digital skills, including AI, coding, media literacy and computational thinking, to better plan and connect learning across the Curriculum for Wales. We’re inviting practitioners and digital leaders to join a focus group with STEM Learning to help shape the Teaching Digital with Confidence (TDC) Wales programme – supporting the effective implementation of the Digital Competence Framework and computing within the Curriculum for Wales.

Secondary : Date: Monday 2 February Time: 4:00pm – 4.45pm :Location: Online via Microsoft Teams

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Primary : Date: Wednesday 25 February Time: 4:00pm – 4.45pm :Location: Online via Microsoft Teams

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As the initiative develops, further opportunities for involvement will also be available.

Express your interest here: Expression of Interest: STEM Learning Focus Group Primary – Fill in form  or contact cerian.angharad@see-science.co.uk for the link

The Royal Society of Biology would like to offer your school a grant of £600 to run a Gopher Science Lab day using our Gopher Science Lab hands-on science activities. (Gopher Science Labs is the second activity listed on our activities page and alongside our online training course together provides all the information you need to run a lab day.)

 To accept this grant funding. Please reply to amanda.hardy@rsb.org.uk

· You and another science staff colleague will sign up to learn about our Gopher Science Lab hands-on science activities using our online course. You will be granted pre-paid access if you accept this grant offer. This is a saving of up to £90 plus VAT.

· You will recruit at least 32 of your school’s students to take part in your lab day.

· You agree to teach your selected students how to deliver our Gopher Science Lab activities to younger children, in advance of your lab day event.

· You will invite and host at least 60 primary school children and their teachers from 1-3 primary schools to take part in your Gopher Science Lab day(s).

· You will use the grant funding offered to buy all the kit, resources needed and expenses incurred in running your lab day.

· Your will keep a record of receipts and expenditure and report on these after your lab day(s) have taken place.

· Your school’s students will (with your help and support) deliver the Gopher Science Labs hands-on science activities at your lab day to the invited primary school children. In small groups or pairs, each to be taught by one or two of your students on one activity at a time.

· Your school’s pre-trained students will teach the guest primary aged children about no fewer than three of the Gopher Science Lab activities. You may select which activities to use from the ten available in teacher booklet one. You may run more than three activities if you wish.

· Activities will be taught by your pre-trained students to guest pupils sequentially or in a circus of activities arranged around your school’s labs or school hall (as appropriate).

· You will organise and run a one hour online or in person teacher training CPD event with local primary school teachers. To explain how your students used or will use the Gopher Science Lab activities to train younger children via peer-to-peer teaching and learning. And encourage them to try teaching some simple science activities via peer-to-peer teaching and learning in their own schools.

· Your pre- or post-lab day CPD session can be run in advance of the lab day to tell invited primary teachers what to expect on the day. Or after the lab day to share experience gained and spread good practice you and your students have learned.

About The Competition

Inspire students to bring their ideas to life with The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition. Got a class who love solving problems? Enter a STEM project with your students. The Competition rewards and recognises young people’s bright ideas. From climate change to robots to life-saving healthcare, The Big Bang Competition celebrates projects of all shapes and sizes. 

Free to enter for students aged 11 to 18 in state-funded secondary schools, The Big Bang Competition supports young people to ask questions, challenge facts and invent solutions. Entries are open! Enter by 4 March 2026.

More information here