Kick Start Grant Scheme for British Science Week 2025 – School Science Workshops – deadline 5th November

Apply now for a Kick Start grant and organise your own event during British Science Week 2025!

Kick Start grants provide funds for schools in challenging circumstances to organise their own events as part of British Science Week, wich will take place between 7 - 16th March 2025. 

The deadline for Kick Start Grant applications is 5th November 2024. 

“I have enjoyed working with As Creatives, they did excellent work for me for STEPS Engineers Week. They provided a professional service and were very supportive and helpful. They were incredibly thorough and always quick to respond. I am really satisfied with the fantastic educational resources that they developed including engineering trails, quizzes, and videos. The creativity and quality of the resources far exceeded my expectations, they are engaging and easy to use. I can’t say enough positive things about the experience, I recommend As Creatives and look forward to working with them again.”  Engineers Ireland

Kick Start Grant Scheme now open! 

If you would love to get your students and the wider school community involved in British Science Week 2025 but are on a tight budget, then Kick Start Grants of between £150 and £700 could be for you. These grants enable schools in challenging circumstances to devise and run their own events and activities as part of British Science Week, and show their pupils and students how wide-ranging science is; there’s something for everyone.

To help you prepare for 2 the application, please make sure you read the detailed Kick Start Grants guidelines before you apply.

To be eligible for a grant, schools must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• over 30% of pupils eligible for pupil premium, early years pupil premium or equivalent.
• over 30% of pupils who are from minority ethnic backgrounds.
• small school based in a remote and rural location.

Submit your application before 4.59 pm on 5 November 2024.

Applications will need to be submitted via the Kick Start Grant page at www.britishscienceweek.org/grants/kick-start-grant-scheme/

Book a Science Workshop 

If you are interested in hosting an As Creative Science workshop as part of your British Science Week 2025 events please find information about all of our 2025 programme below. Or alternatively, you can view all Primary Science Programmes here.

A highly engaging, revelatory and thought provoking and informative whole-school programme, The Science of Change can accommodate the whole of up to a two-form entry school in a single day, compromising …

An interactive assembly, Adapt to Change, demonstrating an example of adaptation stretching back more than three hundred million years – the Story of Humanity!

Workshops (one per year group), exploring specific contributions made to in relation to particular science strands – and touching on the roles played in those areas by individual scientists, technologists and engineers – with a deliberate and conscious focus on diversity.

 - Reception / P1 (Exploring the World): Adapting our Kitchens … How have items in our kitchens changed people’s lives? What’s the science behind some of them? And who are some of the great Kitchen Inventors?

Individual in focus: Sarah Boone, an American woman who, despite being born into slavery, adapted existing designs to invent the modern ironing board!

 - Year 1 / P2 (Materials): Adapting our Clothes … What materials do we use to make clothes? How do scientists adapt these for different purposes? And how might things change in a more sustainable future?

Individual in focus: Empress Leizu, an Empress of China who, the story goes, was the first person to make silk – and who adapted farming methods to share her discovery with others!

 - Year 2 / P3 (Plants): Plant Adaptations … How do plants adapt to different habitats and conditions? How do scientists observe these adaptions? And what role does the Sun play in all this?

Individual in focus: Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist who made important discoveries about ways in which plants respond to their environments.

 - Year 3 / P4 (Forces): Adapting for Forces … What do we mean by “forces”? Which forces have particular impacts on our lives? And how do scientists and inventors adapt their work to take account of forces?

Individual in focus: Alexander Miles, who was lucky enough to be born in the free state of Ohio and so not enslaved, and who used forces to make department stores much safer places!

 - Year 4 / P5 (Animals, including Humans): Adapting to Diet … How are digestive systems adapted to diet? How does the human digestive system work? What about the digestive systems of other classes of animal?

Individual in focus: Aleen Cust, born in Ireland and one of the world’s first professional women vets, Aleen cared for the army’s horses on the front in World War I.

 - Year 5 / P6 (Properties and Changes of Materials): The Science of Food Adaptation … What is the science of baking? What roles do reversible and irreversible reactions play in this? And what about states of matter?

Individual in focus: Ruth Wakefield, an American cook who used a range of factors, including temperature, insulation and surface area to invent the “impossible biscuit” – the chocolate chip cookie!

 - Year 6 / P7 (Light): Adapting our Uses of Light … What are the properties of light? How have scientists used these to change our lives? And how do we use light to capture our memories?

Individual in focus: Ibn Al-Haitham, an Islamic scientist, mathematician and astronomer - and inventor of the pin-hole camera.

Every school booking The Science of Change will also receive a link to a package of downloadable follow-up resources.

View all Primary Science Programmes here

"All staff have fed back to me about how impressed they were with the workshops, how well the children responded to them and how excellent Chris was as a presenter, making the sessions interactive, engaging and educational for the children.  The workshops have helped support me with my mission to promote working scientifically and develop a love of science in the school." (Science Co-ordinator, Bursted Wood Primary School)