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The CREW Training team were asked by the Science Museum (sciencemuseum .org.uk) to help their outreach team, fine-tune their presentation skills, for their exciting new electricity game show. CREW brought on board experience from our ‘Bright Sparks’ Electricity workshop for KS1 And KS2, and combined this with our presentation skills training. This was, together with the knowledge and resources of the Science Museum team; to help target their ‘Danger High Voltage’ show, to specifically engage a KS3 audience. The challenge was for the two teams to create a show that was exciting enough to appeal to the passions of the teenage audience, without compromising the educational validity of the experience. The ‘DHV’ show is an exciting, educational, game show, that introduces/ reinforces the KS3 electricity curriculum to (approx) 200 children per show. Throughout the project it became clear that the age and size of the KS3 audiences demanded a level of presentation that artfully combined exciting interaction techniques with defined control skills. I am very pleased to say that the teams worked extremely hard to ensure that this show has become a great example of KS3 interactive science. A big thank you to the SM team: Nathaniel, Damien, Danny, Tracey, Deanne, Jane, and Jammie, not forgetting, Shana and Richard (the happy couple).

Adam Senior, MD

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A big, thank you to Briony Creasey of ECAS (Ealing Curriculum Advisory Service); for organising, ‘The Ealing Enquiry’ project, throughout March. Due to Briony’s coordination and recommendation through ECAS, we were able to offer Ealing schools ½ price (and in some cases) free science workshops. The team presented our ‘Clued-up or Clueless’ science murder mystery workshops to, approx 2000, KS2 primary school children throughout the borough. These crime busting, finger printing, bloodstained workshops acted as the catalyst to a 2 week science project, supported by our teacher’s packs, that offered the upper KS2 children the chance to get some real ‘hands on’ science investigation experience. With all the games and challenges designed to promote the ‘applied’ use of ‘transition’ level science investigation skills, this project really ‘cracked the case’!
Adam Senior, M.D.

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Spring term saw the development of our ‘Suitcase Stories’ for Foundation Years children. I was particularly grateful for the inspirations I received from Kate Livingstone (Foundation Stage Coordinator at West Acton Primary) in order to develop ‘Cornelius goes to Market’. Cornelius and I are really looking forward to using story, song, music and rhyme to make numeracy accessible for Nursery and Reception children. The team have been looking for a long time, for some way to bring CREW resources to the younger years, in a format that can engage, whilst not over exciting or overwhelming them and I think we have finally cracked it! Literacy next, can’t wait!

Bala McAlinn, Schools Manager

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The CREW training team were really pleased to get lost in the woods this spring! Forest Holidays (www.forestholidays.co.uk) have decided to, not only offer a great ‘outdoors’ experience in the luxury if very ‘modern’ cabins (I got to sleep in a tree house that Snow White would have been proud of) but they have determined to make their team of ‘Rangers’ accessible, exciting, informative and, most important, fun! We worked very closely with a dedicated team of ‘rangers’, managers and site assistants to explore the benefits of an interactive interpretation of their resource, ‘the forest’. We are really pleased to be able to say the team ‘lapped up’ our training and have started applying it across a range of their activities, from the ‘Ranger Walks’, to Self Sufficiency Survival Courses, from the toddler activities to team meetings.

We will be back to work with Forest holidays in the Autumn, which is very exciting…..tree house here I come!

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Site Assistant Rachael discovers true freedom!

Ranger Natalie and Site Manager Stuart explaining the joy of the Forest!

Site Manager Stuart hears it all from site assistant Rachael.

The 'Gang' at Forest Holidays doing the CREW thing

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A Special Offer too good to miss!

As your school may have used Crew on a number of occasions, we would like to offer you the opportunity to receive free workshops! If you are new to CREW this might be a good way of trying us out.

Recently a few schools that are within a group, hub or cluster have been creating themed weeks within their Borough e.g. Science Week, Healthy Eating Week or History week, and booked us to perform the shows. This has allowed us to offer half price 60 children sessions to the group, hub or cluster schools and free workshops to the school who have organised the event. This is perfect for Black History month!

To receive your free workshops, all we require you to do is arrange at least a weeks worth of workshops amongst your group, hub or cluster of schools. Alternatively, if you can provide us with a list of schools who would be interested in taking part in a week of workshops within your borough and the workshops they would like to see, we would be more than happy to coordinate booking in dates and times for individual schools.

We will travel to each of the schools to run the workshop, so you don’t need to organise the schools to come to you. Your school will then receive a free day of workshops of your choice and the other schools will receive 50% off their workshops for groups of 60 children. You can choose whichever workshops you would like to create your ideal education experience.