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Driving Success Through STEM
SiemensManchester
Monday 27th June 2011
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
Des HerlihyHeadteacher
Royton and Crompton SchoolOldham
A Specialist Science College
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
In the run up to the G 8 Summit 2011
National Science Academies issue a joint statement addressing two critical areas ;
‘Water and Health’ : Access to clean water and sanitation has been declared a Human Right by the UN since July 2010
‘Numerous current challenges can only be faced using the results of scientific progress’.
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
Royton & Crompton School
A Specialist Science College
Political need for ;
Public understanding of Policy
Intelligence and capability to deliver the implementation
of the Policy
STEM is a political imperative
How does the education system address this imperative ?
Professor Sir John Holman
‘More than two-thirds of employers say that science and mathematics should be promoted in schools. Sir John explained that, in these straiten times, “We have to think about priorities… what really matters is the quality of our education system and this depends on its teachers. It’s about investing in them.”
National Science Learning Centre
Science Learning Centre North West
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Global Competition Michael Teitelbaum, Sloan Foundation
Currently the United States and Western Europe are producing 28000 PhDs in STEM
So at the moment knowledge capital is where it has been traditionally
China and India a long way behind
How long will this continue ?
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
‘Change before you have to’
Jack Welch
Former CEO
General Electric
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
Mr. Mark Pritchard - Assistant Headteacher
SciTech
The Technology curriculum is driven by the Science curriculum at KS3
Technology is Applied Science at KS3
Leadership and Management Strategy to achieve this
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
Royton & Crompton School
A Specialist Science College
Comments from visitors :
Concern about lack of working with materials
Meccano - A quick win in a lesson cf. food rather than weeks of production
‘It is about ideas and using materials to hand rather than heavy investment in ‘industry standard’ materials and equipment which staff are afraid to use’.
‘The improvement in curriculum is as a result of more people providing input for new ideas, not just 1 or 2 people in a small department’
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
‘The development is also due to us not being blinkered to
new ideas from visitors. We ourselves have changed and will continue to change to provide our pupils with new opportunities’
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
Impact…
• Uptake of GCSE 2009 45 option and pupils 2010 20
year or finishing 2011 252012 602013 75
Royton & Crompton SchoolA Specialist Science College
We are trying to find out material strengths and uses.
Materials such as :
» Foamboard
» Corrugated cardboard» Perspex» Acetate sheets» Newspaper» Glues» Lolly pop sticks
Royton & Crompton School A Specialist Science College
James Dyson quote
‘After the idea,
there is time to learn the technology’.
Royton & Crompton School A Specialist Science College
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