Events for Large Groups
Sometimes you may want to host a hands-on event that will give all of the students in a year group an opportunity to experience an exciting 'Activity Day' just like those we offer to class-size groups. We offer a range of these, all designed to provide you with options to fit within your ideal timings. Every student will complete every activity rather than watch a 'show' with limited audience participation.
Our STEM Events for Year Groups include Enterprise, Engineering, Forensic Science, Criminology and Medical Science workshops that are delivered for groups sizes of up to 72 students at one time as full-day sessions and one or two half-day sessions (allowing up to 144 pupils to participate per day). To include an even larger number of students you can host over multiple days (and benefit from our consecutive day discounts).
We have carefully adapted some of our most popular class-size workshops to account for a typically broader range of student ability and honed every workshop to maximise the opportunities for your students to identify and develop new skills as an individual and as part of a team while having a fun and motivational learning experience. So many STEM events for Year Groups end up being passive learning experiences. We wanted to offer something different and include as many students as possible in high quality activities.
You simply need to provide a venue large enough to hold up to 12 team tables (each to comfortably fit 6 pupils) and chairs, plus presenter tables. We bring a screen, sound system, projectors and laptops to ensure the logistics are easy for you to manage. A hall is usually a better venue than a gym/sports hall as the latter often has fewer plug sockets, low light levels, poor acoustics and less hard-wearing floor surfaces - but we will try to make it work if it is the only venue available.
Single STEM Sessions For 180 Pupils A Day
We also offer a wide range of different activities delivered within the period of your normal lesson that are a very popular way to include all pupils during an activity day or activity week. Even though short in duration, each 60 - 75 minute session is designed to offer a more complex science based activity than possible in our Enterprise Events and enables you to cycle different classes through the STEM activities each day. These are best considered as Mini-STEM Events for all students of all abilities. We can even create a league table for you to show how well each team competed throughout the day - it all helps to make the day a memorable and effective experience.
